Ios – Changing to right to left RTL programmatically

WordPress's back end can handle Arabic just fine, with both the editor and the database itself. If you want the front end to display in Arabic you'll need to use/develop a theme that uses Arabic.

If your blog is Arabic-only, you can add a CSS class to the div surrounding the post in the blog template file that sets the text-direction to ltr. If you use Arabic and English, you can set an if statement to decide what direction each post needs to be based on a custom field you add to the post from the back end.

Unicode characters have different properties associated with them. These properties cannot be derived from the code point; you need a table that tells you if a character has a certain property or not.

You are interested in characters with bidirectional property "R" or "AL" (RandALCat).

A RandALCat character is a character with unambiguously right-to-left directionality.

Here's the complete list as of Unicode 3.2 (from RFC 3454):

D. Bidirectional tables

D.1 Characters with bidirectional property "R" or "AL"

----- Start Table D.1 -----
05BE
05C0
05C3
05D0-05EA
05F0-05F4
061B
061F
0621-063A
0640-064A
066D-066F
0671-06D5
06DD
06E5-06E6
06FA-06FE
0700-070D
0710
0712-072C
0780-07A5
07B1
200F
FB1D
FB1F-FB28
FB2A-FB36
FB38-FB3C
FB3E
FB40-FB41
FB43-FB44
FB46-FBB1
FBD3-FD3D
FD50-FD8F
FD92-FDC7
FDF0-FDFC
FE70-FE74
FE76-FEFC
----- End Table D.1 -----

Here's some code to get the complete list as of Unicode 6.0:

var url = "http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt";

var query = from record in new WebClient().DownloadString(url).Split('\n')
            where !string.IsNullOrEmpty(record)
            let properties = record.Split(';')
            where properties[4] == "R" || properties[4] == "AL"
            select int.Parse(properties[0], NumberStyles.AllowHexSpecifier);

foreach (var codepoint in query)
{
    Console.WriteLine(codepoint.ToString("X4"));
}

Note that these values are Unicode code points. Strings in C#/.NET are UTF-16 encoded and need to be converted to Unicode code points first (see Char.ConvertToUtf32). Here's a method that checks if a string contains at least one RandALCat character:

static void IsAnyCharacterRightToLeft(string s)
{
    for (var i = 0; i < s.Length; i += char.IsSurrogatePair(s, i) ? 2 : 1)
    {
        var codepoint = char.ConvertToUtf32(s, i);
        if (IsRandALCat(codepoint))
        {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}