TextRender wrong orientation?

Am I doing something wrong ?

When I am in the front view in the editor, and I add a text render component by dragging from the modes tab, the text is always oriented along the y-axis. Hence, the text is not readable until I rotate the text render instance 90 degrees along the z-axis …

So … I can fix my ‘problem’, but it seems weird that you have to rotate text to be able to read it in front view ?!
Is this how it is supposed to be, or do I have some setting wrong ???

Thanks !