Matplotlib: Writing right-to-left text (Hebrew, Arabic, etc.)
For whoever encounters the same problem, I found a partial solution.
The bidi package provides this functionality, so using:
from bidi import algorithm as bidialg
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
text = bidialg.get_display(u'שלום כיתה א')
plt.text(0.5, 0.5, text , name = 'Arial')
plt.show()
displays it correctly.
So why is it partial? Because I found out that the bidi package sometimes messes up latex expression which I use with matplotlib. So use it carefully.
I had the same issue and i think that using both answers of @Korem and @Nasser Al-Wohaibi like:
import arabic_reshaper
from bidi.algorithm import get_display
new_text=get_display(arabic_reshaper.reshape(old_text))
because only the arabic_reshaper didnt rearrange the letters and the bidi only didn't combine them
^_^
For Arabic you need both bidi.algorithm.get_display
and arabic_reshaper
modules:
from bidi.algorithm import get_display
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import arabic_reshaper
reshaped_text = arabic_reshaper.reshape(u'لغةٌ عربيّة')
artext = get_display(reshaped_text)
plt.text(0.25, 0.45, artext , name = 'Times New Roman',fontsize=50)
plt.show()