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# International Text
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Mapnik supports unicode text through ICU and has only very rudimentary support for Right-to-left (RTL) languages.
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This page is to document and discuss improvements needed to unicode text handling.
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## Current Tickets
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* [#364](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/364) / [#404](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/404) - RTL mirroring
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* [#1154](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/1154) - Arabic font spacing
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* [#519](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/519) - RTL spacing wrong with numbers (UBIDI_MIXED)
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* [#112](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/112) - Indic RTL font shaping
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* [#189](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/189) / [#409](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/409) - RTL wrapping (line breaks)
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* from osm trac: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2182 and http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/1515
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* [#550](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/550) - line-follow: perhaps made worse by unicode chars, perhaps not, needs closer look
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* [#558](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/558) - Character spacing not correct for nepali text
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* [#582](https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/issues/582) - TextSymbolizer bug with Armenian letters
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## Resources
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* "State of Text Rendering": http://behdad.org/text/
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* [HarfBuzz](http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz)
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* [pango library](http://www.pango.org/)
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* [liblinebreak](http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/)
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* If used Pango would need to be an optional dependency because we don't want to have to depend on whole GLib/GTK stack.
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* http://shapecatcher.com/
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* Mozilla bug that has good testcases that could be harvested: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721821 |
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