Incorrect Arabic font ligature

[moussa1103]

Arabic text is in reverse order and incorrect ligature when added in sketch using Fusion 360 (v.2.0.19983) on macOS Sonoma 14.6.1.

[HughesTooling]

This has come up before, try the workaround in this post.

[HughesTooling]

@moussa1103 The thread I liked above was for an error using text on path. If you are just using a text box the mirror and flip options on the text dialog should give the correct format.

[moussa1103]

@HughesTooling, This is not only about flipping to get the right order, its about letter ligature. in the example provided the word should be displayed as  where the first letter gets connected to the next. Arabic letters connect differently depending on where they fall in the word, and what adjacent letters preceeds or follows. 

[HughesTooling]

@moussa1103 I hoped someone else might try helping but seems not! @Phil.E Can you offer any advice?

@moussa1103 Can you give an example typed into a message on the forum so we can see the problem if the text is typed into Fusion? Also have you tried any other software like inkscape and maybe export as an SVG to get the text into Fusion?

[Phil.E]

Thanks, I logged FUS-170068.

@moussa1103  Apologies for our pace of development, but I don't see this getting fixed soon enough to matter for your current projects. Pleas try the 3rd party solution mentioned by @HughesTooling 

[moussa1103]

@Phil.E @HughesTooling Appreciate the support. For the current project, I have decided to use English letters. But it would be benefiticial to have this functionality corrected for future. I didn't try to import SVG yet. If I get around to it, I will post the results. 

@HughesTooling You can copy / paste the below arabic letters into autodesk for testing. I don't know whether the issue is similar on windows machine. Make sure you add arabic language fonts to your OS.

هذّّه هي الغة العربية

[Phil.E]

Thanks for responding. I'm sorry there isn't a better solution than the workaround with a 3rd party app. SVG import is easy in Fusion, and that workflow should be relatively simple considering the results it can bring. Thanks for your patience with Fusion.

• If you are editing a sketch, it will insert into the sketch.
• If you are not, it will create a sketch for the inserted svg.

[moussa1103]

@Phil.E Much apprecaited. I will attempt SVG on my next project. Hopefully this issue gets sorted in the near future. I am curious thought to whether the behavior is similar running on Win OS.