RTL issue - English on Hebrew Android phones

[pashute]

Continued issue following #20362

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Environment
Phones:

Galaxy J7 Nxt, Android 7.0, updated Feb 1, 2018, Language chosen: Hebrew
Galaxy S7, Android 7.0, updated Oct 1, 2017, Language chosen: Hebrew
React-native Environment:
OS: Windows 10
Node: 8.11.1
Yarn: 1.7.0
npm: 6.1.0
Watchman: Not Found
Xcode: N/A
Android Studio 3.1.4
Build #AI-173.4907809, built on July 24, 2018
JRE: 1.8.0_152-release-1024-b02 amd64
JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
Windows 10 10.0

Packages: (wanted => installed)
react: 16.3.1 => 16.3.1
react-native: 0.55.3 => 0.55.3

Description
On emulator, everything looks ok. When I build and run in debug or actual app, everything is right-to-left.

order of objects in view
texts justified to right
chevron to be shown on right of a list (with flex) is on far left
Adding i18n with force rtl true or false does not help.

Reproducible Demo
https://github.com/pashute/rnUtubeUI

[react-native-bot]

Can you reproduce the issue on the latest release, v0.56?

[hramos]

Can you add screenshots or anything else that might help demonstrate the issue you're reporting?

[jamsch]

Here's a few solutions from one of my older posts

What worked for me was adding a Unicode character "LEFT-TO-RIGHT ISOLATE" at the start.

<Text>{'\u2066'} أهْلًا وَسَهْلاً Ahlan wa Sahlan!</Text>

[pashute]

Your older post is, in fact, this issue exactly.
#10204 (comment)

Shukran Jazilan!! شكرا جزيلا

[react-native-bot]

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