Android mixed language text - BidiFormatter on String with RTL and LTR text

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I have a `ListView` with custom `View` where I have a `TextView` : ``` <TextView android:id="@+id/textViewItemTitle" android:layout_width="0dp" android:layout_weight="1" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:gravity="right|center_horizontal" android:text="title" /> ``` This `TextView` contains Hebrew text. ``` if(!bidi.isRtl(event)){ event = bidi.unicodeWrap(event); } holder.title.setText(String.format("%s %s %s", bidi.unicodeWrap(item.getStartTimeNoDate().trim()), event, bidi.unicodeWrap(item.getDuration().trim()))); ``` Where the first argument is time hh:mm:ss, second (event) is a Hebrew String and third like the first. The problem: some time the event String contains mixed text in Hebrew and English like `abc-אבג` then all the text behave like the the gravity is left (and not right like I defined in the text view), I mean indented to left. How to solve that?

Accepted Answer

Try adding to your TextView:

```
android:textDirection="anyRtl"
```

For more reading: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#attr_android:textDirection

Android mixed language text - BidiFormatter on String with RTL and LTR text

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