Set CSS main direction on bidirectional text

[Amirali-Gorji]

Hi! First, thank you for your fantastic work; I really appreciate it.

I'm encountering an issue with bidirectional (bidi) text when a line starts with English, as shown in the image below:

The expected output should look like this:

I’ve gone through previous issues related to bidi text, but unfortunately, they didn’t resolve this problem.
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!

[liZe]

Hi!

Bidi (and even RTL), is not well supported, see #106. But simple cases like this one usually work, thanks to Pango.

In HTML, main direction of text is supposed to be LTR when undefined, that’s probably why the whole text is LTR. Do you have a HTML sample that works in a browser and not in WeasyPrint?

[Amirali-Gorji]

Actually this picture

captured from an html page , which you can view here

as you can see this html file is RTL but weasyprint output is like bellow picture:

[liZe]

Thanks for sharing. Here’s a minimal sample:

<meta charset="utf8">
<style>
  p {
    direction: rtl;
    text-align: right;
  }
</style>
<p>با اجرای دستور some command</p>
<p>cloneکردن پروژه :</h2>

I suppose that Pango only guesses the main text direction from the first glyphs. We should instead give the main direction defined by CSS.

[Amirali-Gorji]

Thank for your response
I agree with you about Pango.
The HTML appears as shown in the picture below:

However, when I create a PDF file using WeasyPrint, the result appears as shown below:

The direction of second sentence is messed up.