Right-to-Left text-direction in PySimpleGUI

Question

Does PySimpleGUI python library support RTL alignment?

I want to align Arabic text from right-to-left:

Code:

sg.Text("احب الطعام", font='12', size=(15, 1), background_color='#81a5b3')

Answer 1

**just add to your sg.text() element.

justification="right"**

Answer 2

This problem is with Visual Studio itself rather than PySimpleGUI. You can make typing in Right-To-Left languages (like Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, etc) work by doing the following:

Solution

1. In Visual Studio Code, press Ctrl+Shift+P
2. Type >settings in search bar and open Open User Settings (JSON) *
3. Add the line "editor.renderControlCharacters": false and save the settings.json file.

*You can set settings either to apply for everything the current Windows User opens, Default for the application so for all users' everything, or only per specific Workspace.

Now, after a recent VS update only this should be enough for it to work: it will recognize when you are typing in a RTL language. If for some reason it does not work, also do the following:

Potential/additional workaround

• Manually add the unicode RTF character U+202B (or copy-paste from somewhere like here) at the start of the entry you want to type.

I've tested it just now and it does work fine, but doesn't seem to love copy/pasted text instead of typed which could be annoying for long entries if it decides not to work with you for some reason.

Keyboard toggle

You can bind a key to toggle between RTL and LTR to make life easier in case you go back and forth a lot.

1. Ctrl+Shift+P

2. Type in search bar and open Open Keyboard shortcuts (or press Ctrl+K)

3. Add editor.action.toggleRenderControlCharacter to the search bar and set whatever keybind you want.

What this does is effectively add / remove the .json edit that is the solution (i.e. enable/disable RTL).