When viewing an Arabic fonts Font Viewer doesn't properly handle the display of Arabic fonts. The writing is displayed left-to-right instead of right-to-left and the letters are not properly connected. This happens even when the preview text is changed to an Arabic sentence. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. View an Arabic font. 2. Change the preview text to Arabic Actual Results: It displayes the preview text left-to-right and disconnected. Expected Results: It should display the preview text right-to-left and properly connected.
Created attachment 100453 [details] Image of Font Viewer showing the problem compared to proper display.
Also valid for Hebrew on latest stable KDE release (Arch). The order of the Hebrew sentence should be reversed and ideally it has to be aligned to the left.
Created attachment 126729 [details] Hebrew screenshot
I cannot read the screenshots, but do they show actual text, or just a list of glyphs as in the Latin section above? As far as I know, the shaping depends on context, and ideally the font display should show all possible shapes, not just a sample text. Does selecting a different Unicode block help, e.g. Arabic Presentation Forms-A or -B?
2 years passed and issue is not solved!