How to write separated Arabic letters?

Question

I'm making a program that accepts Arabic letters in EditText and those letters must be not linked together. And as far as I know, Arabic letters are linked together.

Example : Arabic letters like (كلب) should be like ( ك ل ب) of-course without spaces between letters

So how can I do to solve this issue or if there are any encodes must be with in XML file?

Answer 1

As Porges said, use "\u200C" between two linked letters to separate them without " "

Answer 2

You can try manually add spaces between each letter using a for-loop by doing something like this:

myEditText   = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.edittext);
String temp = myEditText.getText().toString();

for(int i = 0; i < temp.length(); i++){
     temp = temp.charAt(i) + " ";
}

myEditText.setText(temp);

Answer 3

look into this http://www.unicodemap.org/range/85/Arabic_Presentation_Forms-B/ Unicode Map, when the user enters any new character, handle it with replacing the equivalent from the Map