Question

I have a UITextView with RTL alignment.

If the user enters text, and dismisses keyboard, the alignment remains – RTL.

But if the user chooses empty string, I change the string to the place holder, and the alignment flips to be LTR.

I tried to explicitly ask for RTL, but it didn’t help.

-(void)cancelPad{
    [userTextView resignFirstResponder];
    userTextView.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentRight;
    userTextView.text = @"place holder text";
}

-(void)doneWithNumberPad{
    if ([userTextView.text isEqualToString:@""]) {
        [self cancelPad];
    }
    [userTextView resignFirstResponder];
    userTextView.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentRight;
}

Somebody have any ideas?

Answer 1

Instead of:

userTextView.text = ""

you should put:

userTextView.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"\u202b"];

This is the UTF-8 character for “starting RTL”