diff --git a/lib/classes/text.php b/lib/classes/text.php
index 8e730cb6c92..b99b5d6fc6c 100644
--- a/lib/classes/text.php
+++ b/lib/classes/text.php
@@ -378,6 +378,18 @@ class core_text {
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Reverse UTF-8 multibytes character sets (used for RTL languages)
+     * (We only do this because there is no mb_strrev or iconv_strrev)
+     *
+     * @param string $str the multibyte string to reverse
+     * @return string the reversed multi byte string
+     */
+    public static function strrev($str) {
+        preg_match_all('/./us', $str, $ar);
+        return join('', array_reverse($ar[0]));
+    }
+
     /**
      * Try to convert upper unicode characters to plain ascii,
      * the returned string may contain unconverted unicode characters.
diff --git a/lib/graphlib.php b/lib/graphlib.php
index 0fa5eef9593..685835c07d4 100644
--- a/lib/graphlib.php
+++ b/lib/graphlib.php
@@ -1193,7 +1193,8 @@ class graph {
     function print_TTF($message) {
       $points    = $message['points'];
       $angle     = $message['angle'];
-      $text      = $message['text'];
+      // We have to manually reverse the label, since php GD cannot handle RTL characters properly in UTF8 strings.
+      $text      = (right_to_left()) ? core_text::strrev($message['text']) : $message['text'];
       $colour    = $this->colour[$message['colour']];
       $font      = $this->parameter['path_to_fonts'].$message['font'];