Arabic Text & ImageTtfText

I am currently looking for a way to display foreign alphabets with ImageTtxText.

For example:

ImagettfText ($im, 24, 0, 10, 68, $blue, "../fonts/mssong.ttf",
"中国邮政");

This works well with most alphabets. Chinese, Hebrew, Cyrillic... no problem.

But Arabic is throwing me for a loop.

The text needs to read right-to-left. Arabic text is also connected, like cursive handwriting. I
can generate single Arabic characters, but I can't get ImageTtfText to connect the letters.
Wordpad, however, formats text with the same font correctly - connected and right-to-left.

There are modifiers in the Unicode standard (around x2000) that claim to reverse text direction and
to enable form-shaping. But I can't seem to make them work with ImageTtfText.

Any guidance appreciated.

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