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I am working on a project in MapBox studio where I had to flip all the labels 180° that were on lines. Since its not possible to use text-orientation for labels on lines, I flipped the font file 180 degrees.
I now need to reverse the character strings before they are rendered. Is there a way to do this in MapBox Studio using CartoCSS ?
Something like
direction:rtl;
Where are you sourcing your data from? And are you trying to turn something like abcd into dcba?
If you're sourcing from a PostgreSQL database, there's the reverse() function for strings.
If you're sourcing from a shapefile, it shouldn't be too hard to write a function useing a spreadsheet application (e.g. OpenLibre) that copies one of the columns in the dbf into a new reversed column.
...but to actually answer your question directly: no, I'm pretty sure there is not a way to reverse text using cartocss. sounds like more of a candidate for a data preprocessing step.
