Text with number is disorder in RTL mode (Android)

Question

Text like "20 minutes before" will be "minutes before 20" in RTL mode.

I feel like the system takes number as Arabic word, thus force 20 to the very right of the text.

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/Mytext"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_weight="1"
    android:gravity="end|right|center_vertical"
    android:paddingLeft="4dp"
    android:paddingStart="4dp"
    android:text="5 minutes before"
    android:textDirection="locale"/>

Original string "20 minutes before" is expected.

Try [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6302221/android-setting-with-textview-for-hebrew-text/6302325#6302325). See if it helps — Vucko, Sep 11 '19 at 09:29
You can find solution in below link https://stackoverflow.com/a/26550588/10711216 — Mohan Sai Manthri, Sep 11 '19 at 10:46

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 11 '19 at 09:30

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if you delete "android:textDirection="locale"", then you can see what you want. i don't know which direction you want the "5 minutes before" showing. if left in RTL and LTL mode, you can set " android:gravity="start|center_vertical"", else if right "android:gravity="end|center_vertical"

answered Sep 11 '19 at 09:30

justYuMu

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Actually, it's probably better to explicitly mark this text field with `android:textDirection="ltr"`, at least as long as the text is not translated to Arabic. – Alex Cohn Sep 11 '19 at 14:51

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 11 '19 at 10:38

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use this,

android:textAlignment="viewStart"

edited Sep 11 '19 at 10:38

George Z.

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answered Sep 11 '19 at 09:23

Ronak Ukani

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Emad Seliem · Answer 3 · 2019-09-11T10:42:59.950

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Please check below code

  <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"

    >
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/Mytext"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:paddingLeft="4dp"
        android:paddingStart="4dp"
        android:text="20 minutes before"

        />
</LinearLayout>

edited Sep 11 '19 at 10:42

answered Sep 11 '19 at 09:03

Emad Seliem

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This will cause bugs when the systems language is RTL language like Arabic, etc by forcing text direction to LTR. – Chris Liu Sep 11 '19 at 09:22
Remove LTR , it will work fine for both English and Arabic.I edit my answer. – Emad Seliem Sep 11 '19 at 10:43

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 11 '19 at 09:04

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Try this

<TextView
        android:id="@+id/Mytext"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:gravity="start"
        android:textAlignment="viewStart"
        android:paddingLeft="4dp"
        android:paddingStart="4dp"
        android:text="5 minutes before"/>

Output for LTR

5 minutes before

Output for RTL

before minutes 5

answered Sep 11 '19 at 09:04

Rajnish suryavanshi

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Sorry for making it unclear, i'd like it to be '5 minutes before' even in RTL, and I found out the root reason for this disorder is that when System reads a string like "5 minutes before", it will consider its direction based on first character, in this case, is 5. 5 is either English and Arabic, the system will take it as Arabic somehow and caused this bug. To avoid this, simply add UniCode U+2068 to skip leading numbers, everything is gonna be fine. http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/#Directional_Formatting_Characters – Chris Liu Sep 11 '19 at 09:18

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 11 '19 at 09:43

According to:

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/application-element.html#supportsrtl

android:supportsRtl

Declares whether your application is willing to support right-to-left (RTL) layouts. If set to true and targetSdkVersion is set to 17 or higher, various RTL APIs will be activated and used by the system so your app can display RTL layouts. If set to false or if targetSdkVersion is set to 16 or lower, the RTL APIs will be ignored or will have no effect and your app will behave the same regardless of the layout direction associated to the user's Locale choice (your layouts will always be left-to-right).

so, if this is what you want to achieve than simply set android:supportsRtl = false in Manifest.

Text with number is disorder in RTL mode (Android)

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