Forced RtL in PySide2 / PyQt5

Question

I have a QLabel with an unknown text that must be right-to-left, no matter which language is it. So I wrote this code:

def add_label(self):
    text = self.text_input.text() # self.text_input is a QLineEdit
    widget = QLabel(text)
    widget.setAlignment(Qt.AlignRight)
    widget.setStyleSheet("color: #000000")
    self.layout.addWidget(widget) # self.layout is a QVBoxLayout
    # I can't setAlignment for self.layout because there is some other QLabels in there that have a LtR alignment.

The problem in here is when I write a Persian text in self.text_input and run the add_label function (via pressing a button) it will automatically change the alignment to RtL and when I call the widget.setAlignment(Qt.AlignRight) It will change back to LtR. But I want it to be RtL no matter which language is it.
How to fix this problem?

edit: I added a picture to describe the problem

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 20 '20 at 07:28

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The solution would be to combine the alignment flag with Qt.AlignAbsolute so no matter the layout direction the text will always align to the right.

widget.setAlignment(Qt.AlignRight | Qt.AlignAbsolute)

answered Sep 20 '20 at 07:28

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Forced RtL in PySide2 / PyQt5

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