android:gravity="start" not working on TextViews on RTL locales

It seems the lib is making TextViews to ignore (or have inverted) the setting android:gravity=“end/start” when RTL is used (by choosing hebrew as the device language for example).

If you set the device in Hebrew and have a TextView:

<TextView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:gravity="start" 
    android:text="hello world" />

Current result: the text appears aligned to the left (which is wrong) because the devices is currently RTL.

Expected result: the text should appear aligned to the right.

[guangyya]

I have met the same issue, though I did not use this library…

I googled why I met this issue, and luckily I found a solution.

Add

                android:textDirection="locale"
                android:textAlignment="viewStart"

rather than android:gravity="start"

And it does work.

[apkelly]

@richardjbs This will still show the text on the left because you have hard-coded a western character set. If you use a reference to @string/hello_world and replace that in strings.xml for both values-en and values-iw (for hebrew) it should work as expected.

I’m working on a project which supports Arabic and English and have seen this many times. I don’t believe Calligraphy is related to this issue.