Non-Latin Text Rendering in Various Components

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Apologies for starting the (N+1)th thread on this topic, but I’d like to understand the state of this issue in 2023, hoping that it would be useful also to other people working with non-latin text.

What I’ve observed so far (working with JUCE versions up to 7.0.7) is the following:

The TextEditor class can display RTL (right-to-left) text (with the correct font), but the words are ordered LTR (left-to-right). Editing text seems sketchy to say the least (e.g. pasting some piece of text will insert it a few characters away from the cursor position).

The Label class can also display RTL text and the word order is correct, but some letters are dropped as described by @ronaaron in this thread: Graphics drawText etc do not behave properly for RTL text

I’ve seen that people have found some workarounds around some of the issues, like using a font that covers all languages, described by @timothyschoen in this recent thread: Unicode text rendering & editing in 2022, and implementing custom LookAndFeel text drawing methods based on AttributedString (again by @ronaaron in the thread mentioned above).

Now my question is: is any of this going to change anytime soon (for example with JUCE 7.1), or are these workarounds still the way to go?

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Just for the record, here’s a list of all the threads on this topic that I’ve found, in chronological order:
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2022

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It was mentioned quite recently that the team is going to reimplement text layout features in JUCE 8. But will that issue be covered?

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Thanks for the link. I guess for the time being those workarounds are the way to go.