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Which languages each generator says it supports, and where

Right-to-left text: a layout problem with no published answers

Some scripts run from right to left, and a page in one has to mirror its whole layout rather than only its words. Nothing in this register states how any tool handles that in a subtitle or in text drawn inside a frame. As of 2026-09-22.

Four layers a mirrored script affects, three undocumentedA page has to mirror its whole layout rather than only its words. A generated document has to lay out two directions inside one paragraph. A subtitle has to move its alignment and punctuation. Characters in the picture have to join correctly.The only layer with evidenceA marketing pageNavigation, icons and punctuation all move. Declared by threevendors.A generated documentNames and numbers run the other way inside one line.Undocumented.A subtitleAlignment, punctuation position and line order. Undocumented.Text in the pictureCharacters change shape by neighbour. Undocumented andunfixable.Where a failure cannot be repaired
Fig. 1 Three vendors here declare a right-to-left site language, and nothing published addresses any of the other three layers.
What a right-to-left script changes, layer by layer. Recorded 2026-09-22.
LayerWhat has to changeAddressed by anything published here
Marketing pageLayout mirrors, not just the wordsDeclared by three vendors
Generated documentMixed direction inside one paragraphNo
SubtitleAlignment, punctuation position, line orderNo
Text inside the pictureCharacter shaping and joiningNo

Inclusion rule. The layers a right-to-left script affects, with whether any vendor page read for this register says anything about it. Order. Layer most often addressed first.

1Mirroring is more than translating

A page in a right-to-left script has to move its navigation, its icons, its progress indicators and its punctuation. Translating the strings and leaving the layout alone produces a page that is readable and visibly wrong.

Three vendors here declare a right-to-left language among their site alternates. Whether those pages are mirrored is not something a declaration can say, and it is the kind of thing a spot check would find in a second.

2Mixed direction inside one line is the hard case

A right-to-left sentence containing a Latin product name, a number or a time code has to lay out in two directions at once. Getting that wrong reverses parts of a line in ways that change the meaning.

Generated documents are full of exactly that: character names, shot numbers, durations. No vendor in this register publishes anything about the language of its generated documents at all, let alone their direction.

3In a picture it cannot be fixed later

Characters in several right-to-left scripts change shape depending on their neighbours, and a model that draws them as separate glyphs produces something no reader accepts. Subtitles cannot reach text inside a picture.

So for these scripts the advice that follows from this register is to keep legible text out of generated frames entirely, because nothing published would let a producer predict the result.

A definition, not a measurement: no vendor figure appears here that is not also in the register. The three vendors declaring a right-to-left site language are listed on that language page.

Nearby terms: Writing system, Diacritic. The whole vocabulary is at terms; nothing on this page is a claim about a named product.