Canvas.drawText Right to Left in Java

Question

How can I output text Right to Left (i.e. in reverse order) using Canvas.drawText ? Is there a way?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 14 '15 at 09:40

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Set Paint.Align property in your textPaint object, if you set it RIGHT -- The text is drawn to the left of the x,y origin:

textPaint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.RIGHT);
canvas.drawText("your text here", getRight(), getY()/2, textPaint);

edited Jan 14 '15 at 09:40

Michael

answered Jan 14 '15 at 09:13

Kavis

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Right-aligned text is not the same thing as right-to-left text. – yole Jan 14 '15 at 09:22

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

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edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

Community

answered Apr 07 '11 at 22:20

iluxa

But how do you "use manual BiDi"? In other words, assuming I can detect that I should be going to right to left, how do I tell the drawText function to output the text in reverse? – yydl Apr 07 '11 at 22:28

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