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Android arabic Rihal textView

I have to show this symbol in a TextView on android.

Symbol: ﷼

Result: enter image description here

I'm using other symbols of currencies in the code, but they are all displayed correctly.

Somebody can give me a hint?

Solution

  • This is completely correct, the result that you had is just a different writing for ﷼.

    The symbol ﷼ exists in Unicode while it is in reality a complete word of 4 letters, so some Arabic fonts give it a special writing compared to the separated word ريال. But it is indeed a correct writing, just more beautified.

    Here is a preview of the symbol ﷼ and the word ريال using different fonts:

    In Arabic manual writing art, letters and words could merge or be above each other. Fore example:

    Basmala

    Written in the last image a sentence of 4 words: بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم.