How to set Arabic text to right and English text to left on same label

Question

I learned how to make English and Arabic project from previous question I asked.

Same Project at github

Now what I did is added a label in this project and wrote "Welcome".

The problem is the layout. When I have English text it is at left side (obviously), but when the Arabic text comes, it should start from right to left. But it is aligned to left only.

Any idea how to deal with such case?

Below are the screenshots...

English

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Arabic

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

Below is what I did...

Added fonts in projects folder (english.ttf & arabic.ttf) as shown here.

In Localizable.strings added "myFont"="ACS Zomorrod"; (Arabic) & "myFont"="Armalite Rifle"; (English)

and then had those font in condition

NSString *myFont = localize(@"myFont");
NSString *cpFont = @"Armalite Rifle";
if ([myFont isEqualToString:cpFont]) {
    self.myLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentLeft; // this is for English
} else {
    self.myLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentRight; // this is for Arabic
}

Edit 1

Also you could have "myLang"="arabic"; & "myLang"="english"; in Localizable.strings and then have code as

NSString *myLang = localize(@"myFont");
NSString *myActualLang = @"english";
if ([myLang isEqualToString:myActualLang]) {
    self.myLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentLeft; // this is for English
} else {
    self.myLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentRight; // this is for Arabic
}

I will prefer the second option instead of first as tomorrow if I change the font, I would have to do changes at line NSString *cpFont = @"Armalite Rifle"; in all files.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 15 '13 at 10:26

1

Conditional if-else

Check for your font and change the alignment.

Or,

Make two labels for each of them setting their alignemnt Left-Right and Right-Left and show the text on either by checking the language.

answered Jan 15 '13 at 10:26

Anoop Vaidya

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Who will show the string in your textbox? You only will be passing text and font type to show it, am I wrong? – Anoop Vaidya Jan 15 '13 at 10:30
I don't have any textbox... i have label and button... how to deal in this case? – Fahim Parkar Jan 15 '13 at 10:47
and how can i set two font for same textbox?? – Fahim Parkar Jan 15 '13 at 10:49
same thing if(fontName==ArbicOrSomehing){...} else{...} – Anoop Vaidya Jan 15 '13 at 10:50
check my answer. Is that you was trying to say?? – Fahim Parkar Jan 15 '13 at 11:54
that worked, but don't know why I didn't get what you said. I feel if you would have said, write font name in `Localizable.strings` and then use `if.. else`, i would have gotten your point. Still thanks for help... – Fahim Parkar Jan 15 '13 at 12:14
Now, if you read my answer again, you will get exactly what i asked to do. Might be my communication wasn't good. :( – Anoop Vaidya Jan 15 '13 at 12:16
may be communication was point. :) I will upvote as u gave me HINT :) – Fahim Parkar Jan 15 '13 at 12:17
but I am facing problem with Arabic font... see [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14337547/why-arabic-font-is-not-showing-in-iphone-i-can-see-text-but-not-font) – Fahim Parkar Jan 15 '13 at 12:18

How to set Arabic text to right and English text to left on same label

Same Project at github

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