[Python] Kivy Text Input for Arabic Text

I'm trying to use Kivy's text input for Arabic text. I have an Arabic font set up with my text input but when I type into the input (in Arabic) I just get Arabic letters appearing from left to right (and they're not connected as Arabic letters should be when they're adjacent to each other).

Is there a way to get Kivy/text input to support RTL languages input that I'm missing (esp Arabic).

Here's my code,

from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.floatlayout import FloatLayout

Config.set('graphics', 'width', '300')
Config.set('graphics', 'height', '500')


logger = logging.getLogger('')

from kivy.uix.textinput import TextInput


class EditorApp(App):
def build(self):
f = FloatLayout()
textinput = TextInput(text='Hello world', font_name='DroidKufi-Regular.ttf')
# import pdb; pdb.set_trace()

f.add_widget(textinput)

return f


if __name__ == '__main__':
EditorApp().run()


The result of this code:



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