Arabic Text Tap Gestures don't work on Label Spans in iOS

[letscodewithkalyan]

Description

With Label FormattedText Span I added Click listener through GestureRecognizers, In English and French worked fine But in Arabic Event Not firing. it seems to be fixed in #4734. But Arabic Still issue exist.

Steps to Reproduce

 <Label
            Style="{StaticResource Headline}"
            SemanticProperties.HeadingLevel="Level1">
            <Label.FormattedText>
                <FormattedString>
                    <Span Text="مرحبا بالعالم"/>
                    <Span Text="  "/>
                    <Span Text="انقر لإظهار النافذة المنبثقة" TextColor="Blue" TextDecorations="Underline">
                        <Span.GestureRecognizers>
                            <TapGestureRecognizer Tapped="TapGestureRecognizer_Tapped"/>
		                </Span.GestureRecognizers>
		            </Span>
	            </FormattedString>
	        </Label.FormattedText>

in Xaml.cs file

async void TapGestureRecognizer_Tapped(System.Object sender, Microsoft.Maui.Controls.TappedEventArgs e)
{
    await App.Current.MainPage.DisplayAlert(string.Empty, "Arabic Text tapped", "Ok");
}

Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/letscodewithkalyan/MauiSpanTapIssue

Version with bug

8.0.40 SR5

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

Yes, this used to work in Xamarin.Forms, Not sure, did not test other versions

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

iOS

Affected platform versions

iOS

Did you find any workaround?

No response

Relevant log output

No response

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[kevinxufei]

Can repro this issue at iOS platform on the latest 17.10 Preview 7(8.0.40/8.0.21) with sample project.