Reverse rendering of Urdu fonts

I am working on a project that is based on Urdu language in Ubuntu platform. I'm using Python language and have almost achieved my task.

The problem is that, the Urdu text is rendered in reverse order.

For example, consider the word کام (which means work) consisting of the three letters: ک ,
ا , and م

The output is rendered in reverse order as ماک consisting of the three letters: م,
ا, and ک

When copying this text to Open Office or opening the generated XML file in Firefox, the generated result is absolutely desired.

I Am using Python 2.6 IDLE, its working perfect with Windows platform, which clearly shows its not the problem of IDLE. Am working on TKINTER GUI library.

How can this problem be solved?

Tkinter is a wrapper around the Tk widget set. According to http://wiki.tcl.tk/3158, Tk does not support bidirectional text rendering, which would explain why the Urdu characters were displayed left to right.

Unless you've got a particular attachment to Tk, I'd suggest using a more modern graphics toolkit like GTK or Qt. If you must use Tk, you'll probably be stuck needing to manually reorder characters to presentation order.

As a simple solution try reversing the string and then display it. Also look at localization options in Python. I dont know if Python supports Right-to-Left languages. You would get better answer to this question if you ask it at StackOverflow