I've been using Inkscape to generate right-to-left texts.

The process has been:
* Typing an text
* Path/Object to Path
* Path/Combine
* Path/Reverse

For some reason it stopped working - after I perform the reversal, when I look at the "Edit" menu, the last operation that appears next to "Undo" is "reverse subpaths", and indeed the path reversal only changes the writing direction within individual letters, but the text is still rendered from left to right.

Any ideas what might have caused this weird problem?

Hi.

Could not replicate your error - or get the text to "change direction".

Inkscape can create right to left text if you set your keyboard to the appropriate one - I tried with arabic - works fine.

see here; http://jurgen.gaeremyn.be/index.php/productivity/writing-arabic-in-inkscape-under-ubuntu.html

RGDS
Ragnar