[TIMOB-24236] Support language natural direction text alignment

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	Improvement
Priority	Low
Status	Closed
Resolution	Invalid
Resolution Date	2016-12-17T17:11:27.000+0000
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	n/a
Components	n/a
Labels	RTL
Reporter	Hazem Khaled
Assignee	Eric Merriman
Created	2016-12-16T16:57:21.000+0000
Updated	2017-03-24T18:03:20.000+0000

Description

We want to add new natural text alignment, already supported both iOS and Android, for Android natural is anyRtl. iOS https://developer.apple.com/reference/uikit/uilabel/1620541-textalignment Android https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#attr_android:textDirection

var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        layout: 'vertical'
    }),
    rtlLabel = Ti.UI.createLabel({
        text: "أنقذوا حلب، أنقذوا سوريا!!",
        top: 30,
        textAlign: Ti.UI.TEXT_ALIGNMENT_NATURAL
    }),
    ltrLabel = Ti.UI.createLabel({
        text: "Save Aleppo, Save Syria!!",
        top: 30,
        textAlign: Ti.UI.TEXT_ALIGNMENT_NATURAL
    });

win.add(rtlLabel);
win.add(ltrLabel);

win.open();

Comments

Hans Knöchel 2016-12-17

Hey [~hazemkhaled], we recently changed the iOS text-alignment to be natural by default (see [this snippet](https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/blob/master/iphone/Classes/TiUtils.m#L1354) from 6.1.0 / master), which still behaves as left-aligned text for your example. For advanced RTL-styles, use the [Ti.UI.ATTRIBUTE_WRITING_DIRECTION_RIGHT_TO_LEFT](http://docs.appcelerator.com/platform/latest/#!/api/Titanium.UI-property-ATTRIBUTE_WRITING_DIRECTION_RIGHT_TO_LEFT) attribute for attributed labels.
Lee Morris 2017-03-24

Closing ticket as invalid with reference to the above comments.

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