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POAndroid Webview: horizontal scrolling issue with Arabic pages
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copied!<p>I'm currently facing a problem trying to display some web pages in an Android WebView. </p> <p><strong>Note:</strong></p> <ul> <li>My application can already display HTML pages correctly for most of them, in various languages.</li> </ul> <p><strong>The problem:</strong></p> <p>For some <strong>arabic</strong> web pages such as <a href="http://colleges.jazanu.edu.sa/med/Pages/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://colleges.jazanu.edu.sa/med/Pages/Default.aspx</a>, the horizontal scrollbar won't appear in my webview (but it would be needed). The page starts aligned on the right (seems to be normal), but no way to scroll left. </p> <p>Of course I have tried all the usual settings such as setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(true), setLayoutAlgorithm(...), setInitialScale(1), and so on, but for <strong>some</strong> arabic pages (not all of them) it makes no difference: still not working.</p> <p>The same web page that doesn't work in my WebView can work well in an external browser.</p> <p>I have tried that on 1.5 and 2.2 Android devices, no difference.</p> <p>My WebView is contained in a LinearLayout, with WRAP_CONTENT layout param for its width, but honestly I don't think the problem is related to the way the webview is added.</p> <p>Did anyone have the same problem? Is this a known WebView issue while supporting "right to left" languages (in this case why doesn't it fail every time?). I have searched Google for a long time with no result.</p> <p>Thanks for your help.</p> <p>Benjamin Piette</p>

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