bidi

I'm doing some research about feasibility of changing UI dynamically based on direction of a text. Although Google is supporting RTL languages (ref: Native RTL support in Android 4.2 ) but it doesn't cover a situation that application has mix of LTR and RTL contents. Google's solution is right if we have multilingual app and it has different sources of static data (such as menu items) in different languages. However, I didn't find any other document regard how to change layout dynamically based on direction of text content. Following image shows current design of my test app. List comes from

What is a good way to tell whether a string contains text in a Right To Left language. I have found this question which suggests the following approach: public bool IsArabic(string strCompare) { char[] chars = strCompare.ToCharArray(); foreach (char ch in chars) if (ch >= '\u0627' && ch <= '\u0649') return true; return false; } While this may work for Arabic this doesn't seem to cover other RTL languages such as Hebrew. Is there a generic way to know that a particular character belongs to a RTL language? Unicode characters have different properties associated with them. These properties cannot

I am trying to use a Python package called bidi. In a module in this package (algorithm.py) there are some lines that give me error, although it is part of the package. Here are the lines: # utf-8 ? we need unicode if isinstance(unicode_or_str, unicode): text = unicode_or_str decoded = False else: text = unicode_or_str.decode(encoding) decoded = True and here is the error message: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#25>", line 1, in <module> bidi_text = get_display(reshaped_text) File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\python_bidi-0.3.4-py3.3.egg\bidi\algorithm.py", line 602, in get