It doesn't work properly with right-to-left languages

[asdoost]

I tried tabulate in my code to return a KWIC table, but it doesn't work properly. Even when I use stralign, the result doesn't change much. Here is the line of the code: tabulate(lst, headers=header, stralign="right", tablefmt="fancy_grid") And here is a link to a screenshot of the result: https://pasteboard.co/Ju3KaVk.png The language that I tried is Persian and I tried the code in Linux terminal.

[astanin]

I think it's a very important feature to support. I suppose that RTL languages insert right-to-left mark to change direction. Tabulate needs to insert RTL mark in every cell where RTL text is present, and revert back to LTR to draw table structure.

This is a kind of issue where a speaker of one of the RTL languages can make a valuable contribution, because he or she knows ow the text should look like.

Can you provide a test case for this feature? (An example of the data table to render, and the output, formatted by hand, how it should look like? I suggest you mix RTL and LTR text within the same cells.

[MaMrEzO]

I'm using PgCli and I think this mostly related to your terminal emulator, I can see this happening in Gnome-Terminal but not in KDE Konsole. I have not other terminal emulators to check it. NOTE: stralign="right" may be the cause of problem, I can't test it!

Left side: Konsole and the right one is Gnome-Terminal

But for other tablefmt like psql this is the same even in Konsole:

So as I said this must be related to the emulator that how arrange and render character shapes in such a complicated text ...

[asdoost]

@astanin Sorry that I am answering with delay.

These are three Persian sentences with the normal order:

گوشی Galaxy A03s برایش خرید

رژیم صهیونیستی را محکوم کردند

نتانیاهو شکست بسیار سختی خورد

You could use this the following and compare the results' order with above sentences:

from tabulate import tabulate

table = [["گوشی", "Galaxy" ,"A03s", "برایش", "خرید"],
["رژیم", "صهیونیستی", "را", "محکوم", "کردند"],
["نتانیاهو", "شکست", "بسیار", "سختی", "خورد"]]

print(tabulate(table, tablefmt="grid"))