Arabic Text Alignment

Question

I am using UITextView in Swift 3.0 and I would like to support both English and Arabic language. When I am setting Arabic text in the UITextView, it is aligned left to right instead of right o left.

I have set the alignment to natural in storyboard but it is not working. I want to show text left to right in case of english and right to left in case if arabic text.

How can I achieve it in Swift 3.0?

Answer 1

you can try this code:

let currentDeviceLanguage = Locale.current.languageCode


if let currentDeviceLanguage = Locale.current.languageCode {
print("currentLanguage", currentDeviceLanguage)


if currentDeviceLanguage == "he" {
    UIView.appearance().semanticContentAttribute = .forceRightToLeft
} else {
    UIView.appearance().semanticContentAttribute = .forceLeftToRight
}

}