[Bertil_]

I am trying to write an Arabic string with the Graphics.drawString(String) method but it puts the letters in wrong order and dont put the letters together.

Are there other ways of writing strings with the low level Graphics API that I can test?

I have tested one high level method and it worked just fine (Form, stringItem) but I prefer the low level API.

[grahamhughes]

I think support for right-to-left scripts (like Arabic) in the low-level UI on many devices is probably quite poor.

You could use Graphics.drawChar(), but I suspect you will get all the characters in isolated form.

You can create your own font, and use that. See Custom fonts: step by step. This is a rough guide to creating and using your own font.

The advantage to using your own font is that you get control over the appearance, and you get the same appearance on all devices.

The sample code given is suitable for left-to-right scripts like Latin, Cyrillic or Greek.

For right-to-left, "x += ..." becomes "x -= ...", and you'd want to use Graphice.RIGHT instead of .LEFT. (Supporting L-R and R-L in the same code is more complicated!!)

You also need to draw each character in isolated, initial, medial and final forms, and choose the correct form (since all forms of the same letter have the same Unicode value).

Are you trying this on an emulator or device? If you're using an emulator, it's worth checking if the device is better, before you try to fix a problem that only happens on the emulator...

Cheers,
Graham.

[Bertil_]

tanks for the answer!

Actually the emulator writes the words just fine but my device doesn't

With your right-left example do you mean anchor points?

[grahamhughes]

I mean the direction of writing. So, "left-to-right" is scripts like Latin or Cyrillic, which are normally anchored at the left. "Right-to-left" is Arabic or Hebrew, normally anchored at the right.

You might want to search the forum... there are certainly Arabic-speaking users here, and some of them must have seen the same problem.

Cheers,
Graham.