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  • Published 16 Nov 2020

Arabic/Hebrew support for blender

We all know that blender's popularity has exploded in the last few years, Blender now is the go-to choice for freelancers and studios all over the world, The Arab world is no exception, though you might not notice it, I do because I'm one of them.

The problem is:

  • Blender UI doesn't render the Arabic language correctly.
  • Blender Text object doesn't support Arabic at all.

For example:

This is how Arabic letters look in Blender's UI:

ي ح ي ض و ت ل ا ث م

This is how they should look:

مثال توضيحي


Adobe used to have this issue in the past (In the text tool, not the UI) , a couple of years ago they introduced support for the right to left languages ( Arabic\ Hebrew) under Middle east support option in the preferences

I've been a Blender user for 12 years now, Never in my life, I've seen this amount of Arabic users before , and the numbers are rising exponentially, so the least that can be done for this rapidly growing community is to introduce Arabic/ Hebrew support in the next blender version.

  • I think starting with the browser and UI fields Is easy, It would make a huge difference though.
  • Arabic support for the text object might be harder I think, but we have some workaround methods to tackle it for now, so it can wait

Even though this proposal might not be important to you, please consider upvoting it, It will mean a lot to thousands of users all around the world that are not here to upvote it.

Thank you!

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Development Status: Open

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khader
16 Nov 2020

9 Comments

LloydAlmeida

The more Languages blender supports the better !! Have a look at developer.blender.org/T67452 . The devs may need help in Translations if that's something you can help with.

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mohammadghaznavi1

and also in video sequence editor. it's VERY nice to write directly in blender without pre-processing it with other tools.

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mumumundo

Indeed, that's the only thing preventing me from using Blender as my video editor.

2
cl3m3c7

I think this is basic functionality that should exist before adding anything else!

mark260958

Agreed

mahmoudelsyed

Agree

mmdohelbana

yes plz support Arabic language

mustafaalshamary

We want to add Arabic.

ahmedhassan

I would like to add arabic support for text paragraph in blender