Edit Arabic text/ content at Android Studio editor is almost impossible

Question

It is almost impossible to edit Arabic text in Android Studio!

For example I have the following string-aray:

<string-array name="countries">
        <item> - من خارج فلسطين - </item>
        <item> أذربيجان </item>
        <item> أرمينيا </item>
        <item> أستراليا </item>
        <item> أفغانستان </item>
        <item> ألبانيا </item>
        <item> ألمانيا </item>
        <item> أنتيغوا </item>
...

What I do is that I copy it to notepad, edit it, then paste back again!

It comes a real pain when the list is bigger and it is a major drawback for Android Studio!

Answer 1

I think the solution might be to open the string.xml and all other resource files with an external editor since Arabic suport is crappy in android studio.

ٍSo i suggest to select string.xml right click and click show in explorer then open it with your preferred text editor and change whatever you want.