Links not working in UITextView Attributed String when language is Arabic

We have implemented a code to add a link to the whole attributed text inside a UITextView.


The strings we are loading are:

English String: "Click Here To View"

Arabic String: {some Arabic text}


Code:

func setupTextView() {

let mutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "")

let attributedString = NSAttributedString(string: {string value}, attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor:Colors.gray_3_748499])

mutableAttributedString.append(attributedString) mutableAttributedString.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.link, value: "https://www.google.com", range: NSMakeRange(0, self.attributedString.length))

self.textView.attributedText = mutableAttributedString

}

Result:

We can see that the delegate


textView(_ textView: UITextView, shouldInteractWith URL: URL, in characterRange: NSRange, interaction: UITextItemInteraction)

is not called when the text added in the text view in Arabic language.

For all other languages (left to right) the delegate gets fired.



Looking forward for valuable suggestions.

Replies

I have the same problem, did you solve it?