Android: How to flip or rotate unicode character dynamically

Question

Due to lack of available unicode symbol, I'm trying to get a unicode arrow to point in the opposite direction dynamically for right-to-left languages, but it's not working. Is there a way that this can be done programmatically only?

textView.text = getString(R.string.app_settings) + " \u2794 " + getString(R.string.display)

Current result (English)

Expected result (Hebrew)

Current result (Hebrew)

Answer 1

You could use css transform to flip the symbol. I would put the unicode inside a span and with javascript add a class that has the transform function in it.