Arabic Captions, Titles & RTL Support in XiFilm

These guides describe the documented upstream workflow. XiFilm integration and installers are still in development; Alpha is free. Availability in a XiKey release has not yet been verified.

Honest Status: What Works Today vs. Coming

Product status

• Work in Arabic or English — In progress: An Arabic interface and one-click EN ⇄ ع switching are in progress for this product. The verified pilot is XiPhoto; this integration is not shipped.
• Find Arabic fonts by style — In progress: A font dialog grouped by Arabic styles, with script-aware previews, is in progress. Product integration and native review remain.
• A consistent XiKey welcome — In progress: XiKey splash, About and message dialogs are in progress, including upstream credit and version information.
• Choose a comfortable workspace — Planned: Classic and Modern layout presets, together with Retina scaling, are planned.
• Extend through XiLauncher — Planned: XiKey add-ons managed through XiLauncher are planned.
• Receive verified updates — In progress: Signed updates delivered through XiLauncher are in progress. A public XiKey release channel is not yet verified for this product.

Checking Arabic text

Write Arabic in normal logical order. Inspect letter joining, word order and punctuation in the final output. Arabic integration in this product remains unfinished; availability in another product does not establish availability here.

Sources

Upstream version checked on 2026-10-14.

• Upstream documentation
• Upstream documentation 2