Hello, I'm working on a game (using Ruby) and planning to have it available in several languages. I was wondering what's the best option for rendering text. In particular, whatever I use should be able to render complex fonts (Arabic and Persian in particular). I've been looking around and have stumbled upon freetype, graphite, and usi...
Hello, We are currently working with Flex creating a web application. We are having trouble taking Arabic text from the user and displaying correctly (like in a chat feature). While presumably Flash 10 will solve this problem, we don't want to force our users to upgrade. Flash flips the order of the sentence's words. so if I wrote somet...
I am using Crystal Reports 10. The reports are obtaining data from an Oracle 10G database. We have some data in Arabic. When I try to display the Arabic data it is showing as ?. Any ideas on what I can do to display this correctly? ...
I have a multilingual ASP.NET site; one of the languages is Arabic (ar-SA). To switch between cultures, I use this code: Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture(Name) Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = New CultureInfo(Name) When displaying the date of an article, for example, I just do this, and t...
hi guys, i have this block of xslt if-else case and was wondering if there's a way for me to do straight comparison with unicode character? Something along the lines of the code shown below? Or does xslt have some built in function which i can use for this purpose? i.e. change the unicode into html entities and compare via that method?...
I'm looking for the ideal tool to use for publishing technical documentation in English & Arabic (in the same document). Should I use DocBook, or is it better to stick with TeX/LaTeX? I am a complete beginner to both systems so there's no legacy stuff to worry about. The two most import factors for me are easy of use and support for Arab...
I want to write arabic text in my opengl program using freetype 2 how I can do it any one can send me asource code or show me the way or even any modification on nehe lesson 43 to write arabic in opengl which explain using freetype to display the arabic text ...
I am having utf-8 encoded file containing arabic text and I have to search it. My problem are diacritics, how to search skipping them? Like if you load that text in Internet Explorer (converting text in HTML ofcourse ), IE is skipping those diacritics? Any help? Edit1: Search is simply performed by following code: var m1 : TMemo; /...
How can OC4J be configured to support Arabic? some arabic contents appear as ? question marks, however in the pages that this probelm arises in it, the page encoding (<%@ page pageEncoding="windows-1256" %>) is set properly (I tried all possible alternative windows-1256, utf8, ... etc) ...
Any ideas how to configure Wordpress to get the date and page numbers in Eastern Arabic Numerals? These are 0660 up till 0669 in UTF-8. I am talking about getting those numbers ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩ replace those 0123456789. I am using Wordpress 2.7. ...
WordPress is so powerful.. but yet it is so weak with RTL Languages like Arabic and Hebrew... I need to have the Front-End in Arabic and Admin area to stay in English and of course LTR.. If I use the Arabic version of wordpress.. Every thing including admin area will be in Arabic and RTL.. which will not be suitable at all.. In the same ...
I have a MySQL database with book titles in both English and Arabic and I'm using a PHP class that can automatically transliterate Arabic text into Latin script. I'd like my output HTML to look something like this: <h3>A book</h3> <h3>كتاب <em>(kitaab)</em></h3> <h3>Another book</h3> Is there a way for PHP to determine the language o...
I've been researching about adding Arabic localisation into our software. I understand that mirroring of some controls is essential, such as the relationship of labels and textboxes: any labels that are to the left of textboxes in left-to-right languages need to be to the right of the textboxes in Arabic and other right-to-left language...
Hi, I am developing a web application in Arabic. For that I convert existing pages in English to Arabic and save the file with encoding. But when I restarted Visual Studio all the arabic characters are changed to '?'. What might have caused this? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks ...
This is a follow up question (and possibly should have been asked before it) to this question: Subclasses of java.util.Calendar. I'm internationalising a large Java app that uses dates fairly regularly since a lot of the data has dates associated with it. One of the first languages that it will be translated into is Arabic. Currently...
I'm using the ASP.NET Chart control to render a fairly simple chart. I need to create an arabic version of my web-site and the customer would like the numerals to be written using easter arabic numerals (٠,١,٢,٣,٤,٥,٦,٧,٨,٩), instead of the regular 1-9 numbers. Numerals that appear in a web-page are automatically changed based on the u...
Hello, I have a bunch of lines of Arabic text in UTF-8. The device I am trying to display this one does not support arabic text being displayed. Therefore, I need to convert the text into images. I would like to save each line of text as an image with a specific width. I need to use a specific font as well. What is the best way to ...
Hello! I recently received an Arabic translation for my app, but would like to do more than simply replace the strings. I can re-layout most of the NIBs with Interface builder, but there are a few things that I need to do programmatically. Is there some way in Cocoa to figure out if the current locale is a RightToLeft locale, or do I...
Hello, please does any one know a free Arabic tagged corpora because i am working on grammar and i need one.Thanks very much. Hani Almousli..... ...
Hi I'm trying to generate email from my code that will read correctly for people using right-to-left-reading languages such as Arabic. My question is: what are my options for acheiving this? I am aware that I can create a multipart email and encode the message body as "text/html", then specify a text direction in the <html> tag (e.g. <...