Does OpenLaszlo support Arabic text in Flash or DHTML?

I copied and pasted some Arabic text from Wikipedia into this test program:

<canvas
width="100%"
height="100%"
>

<text
fontsize="80"
resize="true"
>الصفحة الرئيسية</text>

</canvas>

When it renders, it looks a lot different from the same text on Wikipedia or Word, with the letters in the reverse order (so they are connected differently).

What does an OpenLaszlo program have to do to display Arabic text correctly, that it loads from an XML file?
Is it possible to right justify filled text?
I presume the labels and forms elements in the user interface will have to be rearranged and justified the other way, too. Does bidirectional text work the same way (or at all) in the Flash and DHTML runtime?

-Don


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