Arabic characters not joining correctly in the new captioning tool

Question

Hi all,

Since the latest update with the redesigned captioning tool, Arabic characters show correctly in the caption editor, but are not rendering correctly in the program monitor. I have "South Asian and Middle Eastern" checked under Text Engine in Preferences. Screenshot below

Stan Jones · Accepted Answer

See the correct answer from staff (Trent Happel via Kevin Monahan):

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/srt-import-with-right-to-left-language-e-g-hebrew-arabic-text-is-reversed/m-p/11909031#M335759

"Do you have South Asian and Middle Eastern set in your Caption Track Settings? Right-click on the Caption track header, choose Track Settings... and then under Styling Options > Text Engine, click button for South Asian and Middle Eastern. Then click Ok button."

Interestingly, I don't think you need to set the regular preferences to South Asian and Middle Eastern as long as you set the caption track. But when I set the regular preferences to that and created a new track, it set the caption track to the same.

Stan

TJMakesVideo · Answer

I'm having the same issue.  My graphic preferences are set correctly and I'm even using the English-Arabic version of the software.  Similar to above, my Arabic text appears correctly displayed (R-L) in the captions window but in the timeline/Program monitor is displayed incorrectly L-R.  The text direction toggles in Essential Graphics are disabled.  Hopefully I'm missing something but my guess is the fuctionality doesn't exist yet.

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