Toggle arrow symbol button support RTL

Question

Hi,

Is there a way to flip the toggle arrow button to support BiDi?

 I can externalize the Segue UI Symbol unicode to .resw, but instead of showing the symbol, it shows &#xE0AB

please help, thanks

Answer 1

Hi,

In XAML, we should use it like this

<Button FontFamily="Segoe UI Symbol" FontSize="20.0" Content="&#xE0BA;" />

In Codes, we should use it like

this->SegoeButton->Content=L"\ue0ac";

Best regards,
Jesse

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Answer 2

Hi Jesse,

thanks for your suggestion.  However, your solution doesn't work because this app support RTL languages such as arabic.  If you applied the code, it will not work for English or other LTR languages.  I only have single .XAML files for all 26 supported languages.  The UI are flipped based on the flowdirection in the code, and it gets the "RightToLeft" in the resource file that has a flag.

If there anyway to externalize the \ue0ac to .resw?  Currenly, if i do that, rather than showing the Symbol, it shows \ue0ac.

By the way, the ArrowGlyph is under StandardStyles.xaml provided by Microsoft and it doesn't contain the <button element.

<TextBlock x:name="ArrowGlyph" Text="&#xE0A6;"...etc

If i changed to

<TextBlock x:name="ArrowGlyph" x:UID:"RTL_Arrow"...etc.

Under arabic.resw:

RTL_Arrow= &#xE0A6;

This doesn't work.

thanks

-James