Standard digital text engines, including earlier versions of After Effects, are often optimized for Left-to-Right (LTR) languages. When users paste Arabic text directly into After Effects without proper configuration, two major errors occur:
| Issue | Solution | |-------|----------| | Broken ligatures | Use font-feature-settings: 'calt', 'liga' | | Diacritics overlapping | Increase line-height | | Wrong cursor movement | Ensure dir="rtl" is on the nearest block | | Search indexing | Keep plain text inside – avoid splitting with spans | Arabic Text.jsx --39-LINK--39-
If you have legacy data containing strings like "مرحبا --39-LINK--39- العالم" , follow this forensic fix: Features of Arabic Text