Android: RTL support - digits embedded in a right to left sentence (Hebrew)

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Published on 2010-04-06T10:56:05Z Indexed on 2010/06/05 7:12 UTC
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Hi There,

My application displays Hebrew text which comes from a Web Service.
When a sentence contains digits (in the middle of it), the digits appear in a mirror view:
29 appears as 92, 21:45 appears as 54:12 and 2,000 appears as 000,2.
Also, when a sentence starts with digits or English characters, they get thrown to the end of the sentence messing it all up...

Does anyone have an idea how can this be solved? Is RTL support in Android still immature?
Thanks,
Rob

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