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Problem with Text alignment in Android if Label given text-align: right; and the text is LTR it works ok but when text is RTL for example Arabic text goes to the other way.

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Android

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  package.json file of your project)
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  project)

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xml

<Page xmlns="http://schemas.nativescript.org/tns.xsd" navigatingTo="onNavigatingTo" class="page">
    <Page.actionBar>
        <ActionBar title="My App" icon="" class="action-bar">
        </ActionBar>
    </Page.actionBar>
    <StackLayout>
			<Label text="this sholud be right" class="text"/>
			<Label text="اضغط هنا" class="text"/>
			<Label text="Tap the button left" class="text2"/>
			<Label text="اضغط هنا" class="text2"/>
    </StackLayout>
</Page>

css

.text {
  text-align: right;
}

.text2 {
  text-align: left;
}

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