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Right to Left Alignment for UITableView

Hello All, I am working on an arabic app for iphone 3.0. i was wondering if there is a way that i can convert the UITableViewCell to be right-to-left. I want everything to be in the opposite direction. Any thoughts? ...

How to change the writing direction in iPhone UITextView or UITextField

Right now if you type something in a right to left language and tap and hold, the copy and paste menu will have an extra option for changing the writing direction form "left to right" to "right to left". I want to set this option in the code so that my UITextView writing direction would be right to left by default. Does anyone know h...

Javascript - how to find hebrew?

hi, i"m trying to fint if a string starts(first letter) width an RTL language/ hebrew. any ideas? ...

Where exactly in the Android OS is text renderred?

Let me first state what I am trying to achieve: To create a patch for the Android OS to enable it to display Arabic/Hebrew correctly. Both of these languages are Right-to-Left (RTL) and their script involves connected letters/glyphs (unlike Latin alphabets which have discrete letters). Example: The Arabic word for "car" is: سيارة...

Aligning contents of a div right. Getting 'direction: rtl' effect, without specifying the widths? while keeping text direction in input fields going ltr. Is it possible?

Aligning contents of a div to right edge. Getting 'direction: rtl' effect (right to left), without specifying the width of the div? while keeping text direction in input fields going ltr(left to right). Is it possible? Applying direction: right to div almost acheives effect, except text fields inputs also become rtl. (I guess align: ri...

RTL shows numbers at the end of lines

Hi. Trying to display a hebrew string that starts with a number, always displays the number at the end of the string like so: 1. יום שישי בבוקר but I need the number to be displayed at the right side of the text- any solution to that? It happens with UILabel & UITextField & UITextView and trying to write the number at the left side...

RTL in Markdown

Is there any existing addon spec for markdown that includes support for RTL languages? What I'm hoping for is something like This paragraph is left to right <- This paragraph is right to left Or something... I can tweak my parser to handle this but I want to make sure it doesn't exist already. Thanks. ...

Right to Left UI in iPhone (Hebrew)

Hello, I'm struggling in creating a RTL UI in iPhone application. The framework doesn't seem to have any support for RTL languages. The only thing is the alignment inside labels, which is nice, but it conflicts with other controls behaviour. The question is: Is there a working code for a RTL TableView? Something that would handle the d...

Project suggestions needed for "interview preparation demo program"

I have a job interview next week that requires me to be able to demonstrate the following skills: C C++ SystemC 3D Video Digital communication RTL (register transfer level) Usually before an interview, I create a quick application just to refresh my knowledge of all the skills required, but I can't think how to combine all of these i...

some pointer to understanding GCC source code

hi, I'm student working on optimizing GCC for multi-core processor. I tried going through the source code, it is difficult to follow through it since I need to add some code to the back end. Can anyone suggest some good resource which explains the code flow through the different phases. Also suggest some development environment for debug...

Text: right to left (CSS)

Is there a CSS code that changes this text This is it to this one ti si sihT ...

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 se...

C builder RAD 2010 RTL/VCL Application->Terminate() Function NOT TERMINATING THE APPLICATION

I have a problem also described here: http://www.delphigroups.info/3/9/106748.html I have tried almost all forms of placing Application->Terminate() func everywhere in the code, following and not 'return 0', 'ExitProcess(0)', 'ExitThread(0)', exit(0). No working variant closes the app. Instead the code after Application->Terminate() s...

Facebook and rtl

Is there any good way to display rtl based languages (in this case Hebrew) in facbook? As soon as I include a page in rtl formating facebook it gives displays it ltr and usually aligned right. What definetly works is when I use dir="rtl" in the code. But then the fbml tag come out the other way round. And when I try to publish a stream i...

Design considerations for a multi-language web application

I was asked by an interviewer today how I would implement Arabic as a second language into a PHP web application. I talked about choosing a unicode encoding for the database and the front-end, and designing RTL friendly user interface modules. And he didn't seem too happy with the answer. I don't really know anything about multi-lingual...

How do I get my text to be direction from right to left without using a p tag?

I have a dynamically appearing div on a page. I would like to be able to hide the div with a button at the top right corner of the div. One way I have found to do this is to use a p tag, like so: <p dir="RTL">button</p> If this is the first line of HTML within the div, it will put the button in the upper right hand corner of the div. ...

2-byte (UCS-2) wide strings under GCC

Hi all, when porting my Visual C++ project to GCC, I found out that the wchar_t datatype is 4-byte UTF-32 by default. I could override that with a compiler option, but then the whole wcs* (wcslen, wcscmp, etc.) part of RTL is rendered unusable, since it assumes 4-byte wide strings. For now, I've reimplemented 5-6 of these functions fro...

hiding text using "text-indent"

I'm trying to hide some text inside an <li> element using CSS by setting text-indent: -999px;. For some reason this doesn't work when I set the direction of the document to "rtl" (right to left - my site is in Hebrew). When direction is "rtl" the text still shows... Anyone knows why, and a way around this? ...

Strange brackets layout in RTL text direction region

The following html snippet <div dir="rtl"> test (test) </div> shows (test (test in all browsers. Why? ...

Is there a way (without coding explicitly) to display a number using the metric prefixes?

This question is relaetd to This question, on using some of the windows explorer features automatically inside a Delphi application. Is there a way to format an integer using the metrix prefixes automatically in Delphi? Somehow to automatically obtain a result like windows explorer gives? I mean converting 1024 to 1.0 K automatically. ...