Fixed LTR character starting sentences that contain RTL words

Assets/RTLTMPro/Ranges/UniversalRanges.txt

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+0D,20-7E,60C,61B,61F,621-63A,640-669,670,67E,686,698,6A9,6AF,6CC,6F0-6F9,FB57-FB59,FB7B-FB7D,FB8B,FB8D,FB8F-FB91,FB93-FB95,FBFD-FBFF,FC5E-FC63,FE82,FE84,FE86,FE88,FE8A-FE8C,FE8E,FE90-FE92,FE94,FE96-FE98,FE9A-FE9C,FE9E-FEA0,FEA2-FEA4,FEA6-FEA8,FEAA,FEAC,FEAE,FEB0,FEB2-FEB4,FEB6-FEB8,FEBA-FEBC,FEBE-FEC0,FEC2-FEC4,FEC6-FEC8,FECA-FECC,FECE-FED0,FED2-FED4,FED6-FED8,FEDA-FEDC,FEDE-FEE0,FEE2-FEE4,FEE6-FEE8,FEEA-FEEC,FEEE,FEF0,FEF2-FEFC

Assets/RTLTMPro/Scripts/Runtime/RTLTextMeshPro.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-using TMPro;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using TMPro;
 using UnityEngine;
 
 namespace RTLTMPro
@@ -94,6 +95,8 @@ public bool ForceFix
 
         protected readonly FastStringBuilder finalText = new FastStringBuilder(RTLSupport.DefaultBufferSize);
 
+        readonly List<string> currentArabicWordBuffer = new List<string>();
+
         protected void Update()
         {
             if (havePropertiesChanged)
@@ -107,10 +110,55 @@ public void UpdateText()
             if (originalText == null)
                 originalText = "";
 
-            if (ForceFix == false && TextUtils.IsRTLInput(originalText) == false)
+            if (!ForceFix && !TextUtils.IsRTLInput(originalText))
             {
                 isRightToLeftText = false;
-                base.text = originalText;
+
+                string final = "";
+                string[] words = originalText.Split(' ');
+
+                //preprocess
+                int idx = -1;
+                int wIdx = 0;
+                foreach (string w in words) {
+                    if (TextUtils.IsRTLInput(w)) {
+                        if (idx == -1)
+                            idx = wIdx;
+
+                        currentArabicWordBuffer.Add(w);
+                    }
+                    else if (idx > -1) {
+                        //we had a word buffer already
+                        currentArabicWordBuffer.Reverse();
+                        for (int i = idx; i < wIdx; i++) {
+                            words[i] = currentArabicWordBuffer[i - idx];
+                        }
+
+                        currentArabicWordBuffer.Clear();
+                        idx = -1;
+                    }
+
+                    wIdx++;
+                }
+
+                if (idx > -1) {
+                    currentArabicWordBuffer.Reverse();
+                    for (int i = idx; i < wIdx; i++) {
+                        words[i] = currentArabicWordBuffer[i - idx];
+                    }
+
+                    currentArabicWordBuffer.Clear();
+                }
+
+                foreach (string w in words) {
+                    string txt = TextUtils.IsRTLInput(w) ? GetFixedText(w, false) : w;
+                    final += txt + ' ';
+                }
+
+                if (words.Length > 0)
+                    final = final.Remove(final.Length - 1);
+
+                base.text = final;
             } else
             {
                 isRightToLeftText = true;
@@ -120,14 +168,15 @@ public void UpdateText()
             havePropertiesChanged = true;
         }
 
-        private string GetFixedText(string input)
+        private string GetFixedText(string input, bool reverse = true)
         {
             if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(input))
                 return input;
 
             finalText.Clear();
             RTLSupport.FixRTL(input, finalText, farsi, fixTags, preserveNumbers);
-            finalText.Reverse();
+            if (reverse)
+                finalText.Reverse();
 
             return finalText.ToString();
         }

README.md

@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+# MRK
+Forked to fix LTR character starting sentences containing RTL words, letters, etc.
+
+### Old Behaviour
+"I'm مرك دا جودز aka MRK Da Gods على جيت هاب (on github)"
+
+![](Screenshots/Old.png)
+
+### New Behaviour
+Tada!!
+
+![](Screenshots/New.png)
+
+### Ranges
+I've also added a UniversalRanges.txt file in Assets/RTLTMPro/Ranges to fully include English & Arabic in the font atlas texture.
+
 # RTL Text Mesh Pro
 This plugin adds Right-to-left language support to "Text Mesh Pro" Unity plugin. 
 You need to have `TextMeshPro` plugin in your project. You can install TMPro via `Package Manager`.