Right to left UILabels

Question

I need to display a text using a UILabel ( can't use UIWebView ), and it sometimes contains both Hebrew and English. using UILabel's default settings the sentence gets mixed up and doesn't make sense. I have failed to found a way to make UILabel display text rtl.

Does anybody know anyway to do that, or a code that implements this?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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Have a look at this SO, it contains some info on this subject that might help you out. It seems to work for some by adding the code \u200F to the strings to be displayed.

NSString *RTFstr = "1. בבוקר"; //This could be any right-to-left string
NSString *directionalString = [@"\u200F" stringByAppendingString:[note text]];
[someUITextView setString:directionalString];

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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answered Sep 29 '11 at 10:21

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It worked but "\u200F" is showing , how we can remove this without affecting string. – Sanoj Kashyap Dec 25 '13 at 19:07
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31743688/left-to-right-mark-not-working-in-swift – OhadM Apr 07 '19 at 11:35

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '15 at 10:47

This will work

-(void)fnForWritingDirection:(UILabel*)label textFor:(NSString *)stringForText{

    NSMutableAttributedString* attrStr = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString: [stringForText stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

    NSMutableParagraphStyle *paragraphStyle = [[NSMutableParagraphStyle alloc] init];

    [paragraphStyle setBaseWritingDirection:NSWritingDirectionRightToLeft];

    [attrStr addAttribute:NSParagraphStyleAttributeName value:paragraphStyle range:NSMakeRange(0, [attrStr length])];

    label.attributedText=attrStr;

}

Right to left UILabels

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