Reading Arabic text from a UTF-8 text file? - uitextview

Question

Dear All,
I have a strange (stupid) problem when trying to read "Arabic text" from a given file. Let us assume that I have a text file called TEXT.txt which is encoded UTF-8 and looks like this (Arabic text is from RightToLeft):
:xxx xxxx xx xxx
.xxx, xxxxxxx xxxxx xxx
When I am trying to read TEXT.txt in Xcode by using
UITextView *about;
about.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentRight;
NSString *textFilePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:#"TEXT" ofType:#"txt"];
NSString *fileContents = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:textFilePath encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
about.text = fileContents;
NSLog(#"The text is: \n %#",about.text);
Which is I believe is the right way!!! Then it shows on iPhone Simulator and on the device as this:
xxx xxxx xx xxx:
xxx, xxxxxxx xxxxx xxx.
Which is not the right text to be shown !!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the heck is the problem of the ":" colon and the "." period going on the wrong side. I had a headache of this problem as I have been trying to solve for a long time already. So please Help!!!
Best Regards;

Answer 1

I don't think there is a way to automatically force right to left layout. However, you can make a method that will reverse your text. This will read each character and putting it into a mutable string. A quick search came up with this:
-(NSString *) reverseString
{
NSMutableString *reversedStr;
int len = [self length];
// Auto released string
reversedStr = [NSMutableString stringWithCapacity:len];
// Probably woefully inefficient...
while (len > 0)
[reversedStr appendString:
[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%C", [self characterAtIndex:--len]]];
return reversedStr;
}