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Android: RTL support - digits embedded in a right to left sentence (Hebrew)

Hi There,

My application displays Hebrew text which comes from a Web Service.
When a sentence contains digits (in the middle of it), the digits appear in a mirror view:
29 appears as 92, 21:45 appears as 54:12 and 2,000 appears as 000,2.
Also, when a sentence starts with digits or English characters, they get thrown to the end of the sentence messing it all up...

Does anyone have an idea how can this be solved? Is RTL support in Android still immature?
Thanks,
Rob

+1  A: 

Is RTL support in Android still immature?

If by "immature" you mean "nonexistent", then, yes, it is immature. Each Android SDK release lists the supported languages, and you will notice that RTL languages are not among them.

CommonsWare  2010-04-06 11:34:06
Thank you for your reply. So, there is nothing that can be done? no workaround? I mean, there are devices with Hebrew interface which have been customized by local carriers and applications do display Hebrew (to some extent)...
Rob  2010-04-06 11:53:46
I am not aware of a general-purpose workaround short of substantial firmware modifications. There has been somewhat greater discussion of this issue *vis a vis* Arabic, so you might want to search the official Android Google Groups for "Arabic" and see if those posts give you any ideas.
CommonsWare  2010-04-06 12:17:01
OK, much obliged for your attention.
Rob  2010-04-06 12:24:10
A: 

This is fixed at least in CyanogenMod. I'd very much like to know which which commit has the fix exactly

Shahar Or  2010-06-05 07:08:14
+1  A: 

Try presenting your text in a webkit control, its RTL support works fine, as long as the HTML code is tagged appropriately.

VitalyB  2010-06-05 10:06:16
+1 for such a simple clever idea.
MatrixFrog  2010-07-04 14:37:57

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