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FSystem
FSystem

Reputation: 83

How to detect current keyboard writing language in WP8

I wanna programmatically set a TextBlock flow direction depended on user current writing landuage(NOT phone language). for example if keyboard is set to Arabic, RightToLeft and for English, LeftToRight. Is there anyway to get current keyboard language in windows phone 8 ???

Upvotes: 3

Views: 975

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atomaras
atomaras

Reputation: 2568

That's a darn good question.

It doesn't seem to be exposed in Windows Phone 8.

I found this here Font and language configuration support for Windows Phone

Text input

The selection of languages for which a phone has preinstalled keyboards and input method UIs is dependent on which market a phone is sold in. At any time the user can download and use a keyboard for any of the 50 supported phone client UI languages. The language of the keyboard, which determines the characters that are written to a TextBox control, is not programmatically available to an app.

It's interesting to note that this IS available for Windows Store Apps.

See Windows.Globalization.Language.currentInputMethodLanguageTag.

Oh Microsoft...

Upvotes: 2

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