[MC-8273] Right to left languages come out backwards in game Created: 25/Jan/13  Updated: 14/May/17  Resolved: 17/Aug/16

Status: Resolved
Project: Minecraft: Java Edition
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: Minecraft 1.4.6, Minecraft 1.4.7, Snapshot 13w03a, Snapshot 13w04a, Minecraft 1.5.2, Minecraft 1.6.1, Minecraft 1.6.2, Minecraft 1.8, Minecraft 1.8.1-pre3, Minecraft 1.8.6
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug
Reporter: Meshulam Silk Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Duplicate Votes: 10
Labels: language

Issue Links:
Duplicate
duplicates MC-35765 Viewing text in Right-to-Left languag... Resolved
CHK:
Confirmation Status: Community Consensus

 Description   

I'll use Hebrew as an example:

Typing in א->ב->ג (arrows indicate order) will print out ג->ב->א in the text bar.

This means that in order to write in readable Hebrew, one would have to write everything completely backwards, gniyonna s'taht dna.

I think this only affects Hebrew and Arabic since they're the only two rtl languages in the game that I know of.



 Comments   
Comment by Kumasasa [ 17/Aug/16 ]

Resolved to the more recent ticket MC-94382

Comment by Yuval Roth [ 03/Jun/15 ]

3/6/2015 - still an issue in minecraft 1.8.6. been an issue since day one and the problem hasn't been fixed.
simply annoying. I sometimes play with israeli people(My friends) who can barely read English and that's not even possible to read/write in hebrew like this, or should i say: siht ekil

Comment by Meshulam Silk [ 26/Feb/14 ]

Unfortunately I won't be able to check for the next while. If anyone would test it and post the results I'll update the OP accordingly.

Comment by Talven81 [ 25/Feb/14 ]

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version 1.7.4 / Launcher version 1.3.9 or later? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

Comment by raz [ 31/Aug/13 ]

in 1.6.2 its not fix.

Comment by RB ALHRB [ 03/Feb/13 ]

Arabic is impacted in the same way. Arabic is a cursive language, so all the letters should be connected. For example "العربية" "Arabic" is shown "ا ل ع ر ب ي ة" when displayed in Minecraft.

Thanks!

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