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newday
newday

Reputation: 3878

Printing arabic strings in android

In my application I need to add some string to a list and print them back. Problem is when I print them I can see the letters has inter change whithing the word.The word is in Arabic. (before 4.2 android doesnt support natively for Arabic). What I tried was using several Arabic rendering classes such as fursi class and Arabi utility class. Nothing is helped me.

Here is the word ٣.. ما زاد على actually this part ٣.. should be the first it always goes to right as I have shown. Is there way to solve this thing. this is the one and only bug to hold the application to add to market :(

Upvotes: 1

Views: 757

Answers (2)

zmbq
zmbq

Reputation: 39013

Oh, ouch! Arabic is worse than Hebrew in this aspect because Arabic has its own digits! Right!

I once had a similar problem on Windows, with symbols that weren't treated exactly as Hebrew but also not exactly as non-Hebrew. The only way I found to fix this was to split the string into two - print the problematic symbols (your 300) and then print the rest of the string.

I thought that with Unicode things has gotten better. I guess not always.

UPDATE: In a comment you said the translation of the string was 3.. . In Arabic, zero and a dot look very similar (which is why I confused a dot with a zero). Perhaps the person responsible of the input typed it wrong, not being fluent in Arabic, as well? 3.. doesn't make a lot of sense (3. does, and so does 300, but 3.. ?). Check the input, it might be wrong, and that can confuse the layout algorithm.

Upvotes: 1

newday
newday

Reputation: 3878

I can't technically understand the reason behind my action to correct above issue. However this is it . ` I reverse the word and separated letters by "+" and added to the list.It is amazing !

Upvotes: 0

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