Lack of support for east Asian writing systems

It seems like there’s no way I can layout Chinese characters in a right-to-left, top-to-bottom direction.
e.g. the following figure shows a typical traditional Chinese passage:

Other kinds of (traditional) east Asian writing systems–like Japanese & Korean–work in the same way.

O typography, you’re always that one pain-in-the-jas.

Yeah, I’m afraid the vast majority of apps/sites/games all use left to right for CJK and that’s what PlayCanvas supports too for localisation purposes.

It’s unlikely that we would support the traditional layout for CJK in the near future.

I can’t think of a way to work around this besides somehow rotating the rendering of the glyphs (or rotating the glyphs on the texture) 90 degrees and then rotating the text element 90 degrees.

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