Combine Two String in different Language RTL & LTR

Question

I have two text, one in Hebrew language and one in English.

In first text I have date that is in Hebrew.

    NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
    NSLocale *hebrew = [[NSLocale alloc] initWithLocaleIdentifier:@"he_IL"]; // Hebrew

    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ss.SSSZ"];

    NSDate *date = [dateFormatter dateFromString:model.startDate];

    NSLog(@"%@", date);

    [dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"EEEE,dd.MM.yyyy"];
    dateFormatter.locale = hebrew;
    NSString *strDate = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:date];

and start Date is : יום שישי,19.08.2016 in NString object strDate

On other hand I have text 07: 00-16: 00 in NSString object timeForRequest

My needed format is יום שני, 15.01.2016 | 16:00 - 07:00

and when I try to do same with following code

[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ | %@",strDate,timeForRequest]

it shows me like this :יום שישי,19.08.2016 | 07: 00-16: 00

Observe the time is not correct, please help me to come out from this wired situation.

Thanks in advance.

Does `NSLog(@"%@", date)` print the right thing? – Daniel Aug 12 '16 at 10:09 — Daniel, Aug 12 '16 at 10:09
ya it is showing correct @Dopapp – Prashant Tukadiya Aug 12 '16 at 11:07 — Prashant Tukadiya, Aug 12 '16 at 11:07
model is NSObject class contains string start date – Prashant Tukadiya Aug 12 '16 at 13:45 — Prashant Tukadiya, Aug 12 '16 at 13:45

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 17 '16 at 17:32

I'm pretty sure that the problem here is that the hebrew date in strDate is carrying unicode characters that make it display right-to-left. That's causing chaos when combined with the 'ordinary' left-to-right string in timeForResponse. The date formatter is picking that up from the hebrew locale.

Try this:

Change your date format string to

[dateFormatter setDateFormat:@"dd.MM.yyyy,EEEE"];

Change your string with format to

NSString *result = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"\u200E%@ | %@", timeForRequest, strDate];

The 0x200E unicode character is invisible but puts the rendering back into left-to-right mode.

After the above, this is the output that I'm getting:

07: 00-16: 00 | 17.08.2016,יום רביעי

working with format but when i try to compare `07: 00-16: 00 | 17.08.2016,יום רביעי` with result it gave false result because of that hidden character — Prashant Tukadiya, Aug 19 '16 at 05:38
Maybe you could remove the hidden first character ahead of any comparison: NSString *resultComp = result.length > 1 ? [result substringFromIndex:1] : result; Then compare against resultComp. — ncke, Aug 19 '16 at 06:59

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 17 '16 at 20:14

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answered Aug 17 '16 at 20:14

Jenny W. Garrison

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