Detecting UITextView text direction

Question

I support both Left-to-Right and Right-to-Left in my application. How can I detect text direction in my UITextView/UITextField?

I can't use device's locale because user can have multiple keyboards with languages with different read/write directions.
I suppose UITextInputTraits is also no use because Apple's documentation said that controls only additional keyboard buttons and not the ones with letters.

Any ideas?

Possible duplicate of [How to know the direction of the text?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11305791/how-to-know-the-direction-of-the-text) — Tamás Sengel, Feb 13 '18 at 14:26

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 13 '18 at 14:51

Take a look at the documentation on UITextInput: The below method will return the direction of the text.

func baseWritingDirection(for position: UITextPosition, in direction: UITextStorageDirection) -> UITextWritingDirection {
    <#code#>
}

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