arabic

What's the correct direction of a date embedded in arabic text?

The question is quiet simple: I've got an arabic text with an US formated Date in it. What is the correct display order of this date? Is it(for instance) 01/10/2009 or 2009/10/1? The bidi algorithm recognizes the numbers an slashes as neutral and orders them in the same direction like the surrounding text. So the date should be backward...

Arabic letters shown disconnected in Flash

I am having this issue where Arabic letters are shown disjoint in any component (e.g. Label or TextInput) in Flash. Any suggestions? ...

How to render an arabic character in OpenGL?

I am able to display chinese character correctly but when I try to display arabic string the output that display in OpenGL scene is different from the arabic string that display in Visual Studio Editor. I know it should be something to do with "Complex Script" but I am not able to find any good example regarding to this matter. I would l...

What is Alef Hamza?

I found this one, in the Find box (as Search criteria) of the document viewer. What is supposed to match? ...

arabic text in opengl using freetype 2 library

Can any one tell me or write to me a class how to use free type 2 with opengl for displaying the arabic text in opengl,it is the challenge if any one can do it ...

Convert from English Digits to Arabic ones in html page

I need to convert all English numbers that appear in a given HTML page to Arabic ones (to be independent from the user browser encoding). I prefer to use javascript or it will be great if this can be handled using CSS. I found some pages doing this but I found that the Arabic letters are added with their ASCII representation in the sou...

In Unicode, why are there two representations for the Arabic digits?

I was reading the specification of Unicode @ Wikipedia link text and I see that each of the Arabic digits has 2 Unicode codepoints. For example 1 is defined as U+0661 and as U+06F1 Which one should I use? ...

Right to Left Alignment for UITableView

Hello All, I am working on an arabic app for iphone 3.0. i was wondering if there is a way that i can convert the UITableViewCell to be right-to-left. I want everything to be in the opposite direction. Any thoughts? ...

ms sql2000 arabic problem

I hava a table in ms sql2000 with a column defined as nvarchar when query this table in java i get data for this column like this : يا هلا بالشباب الحلوين يا شباب ا٠شلونكو؟. When i try php with adodb i get the data as it should be ,in arabic. but i need to use java not php ,please can any one help m...

Arabic characters corrupt on landing, fine after refresh - UTF8

I have an php page with mixed Latin and Arabic characters. The charset declaration tag is in the html code and the file is saved as UTF-8. All the text is static and in the php file (does not come from a DB or an external source) When I browse to the site some pages randomly get corrupt in IE and FF and display all question marks. Aft...

Multilanguage UTF-8 website with Arabic

I will be coding a website that will have Arabic as a supported language. With UTF8 unicode I believe I can cover Arabic alphabet. I've also read that it reads right to left so I guess I should align right when displaying on Arabic. I'm asking the community for experience and possible pitfalls. utf-8 unicode css selector to swith text...

how to use arabic content in jasper report

hi I have tried to export jasper report with in the aracbic content through java program. I have set the locale [arabic] in jasper page and also set the locale in my java program. But i can't get the arabic data in my report. It Shows the arabic datas are ?????????????. So anybody guide me for the further steps?. Thanks in Advance Rega...

why a pdf document could be not searchable?

Hi experts,,, I have a pdf document with content in Arabic language and when I try to search inside the document for a specific word, adobe reader returns no results. it seems a format problem... how can I fix that? thanks. ...

Arabic translation for iPhone

What localization prefix do I use for an Arabic translation of the text for an iPhone application? For example for a French translation I use the prefix "fr" which creates a directory "fr.lproj". In actuality the lproj prefixes are the two letter country codes for the country. But there isn't a country for Arabic. So what localizatio...

Where exactly in the Android OS is text renderred?

Let me first state what I am trying to achieve: To create a patch for the Android OS to enable it to display Arabic/Hebrew correctly. Both of these languages are Right-to-Left (RTL) and their script involves connected letters/glyphs (unlike Latin alphabets which have discrete letters). Example: The Arabic word for "car" is: سيارة...

Access Arabic-named files through FTP

I have a website hosted on GoDaddy windows servers. I want to move the website to another server. I tried to download the whole website files via FTP but there are some files which named in Arabic and when my FTP client (FirFTP) tries to save them on my pc, the file name becomes underscores (e.g. _.jpg). I cannot change the file names be...

mysql: possible loss of UTF data from char to text field type conversion?

Hi, I have a database that I use for a foreign language / vocabulary web application and was interfacing with it through phpMyAdmin (and of course php). I had about a thousand rows for Arabic text, which had been put into a char field. I wanted to expand the size of my entries, so I read that a text field could get me past the 255 cha...

SQL query alignment change when Arabic characters are inserted

I have a query like this SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF SET DATEFORMAT 'mdy' INSERT INTO TABLE1 (AccountID, TimeStamp, UserID, NodeID, Deleted, UserPriority, ParentRecordID, NodeLevel, Name, NodeClass, DeviceID, DeviceType, SubTypeLevel) VALUES (0, "10/03/2002 02:33:39", 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,"XXXXXX",7000, 0, 0, 0`) When I replace ...

Why is Java BufferedReader() not reading Arabic and Chinese characters correctly?

I'm trying to read a file which contain English & Arabic characters on each line and another file which contains English & Chinese characters on each line. However the characters of the Arabic and Chinese fail to show correctly - they just appear as question marks. Any idea how I can solve this problem? Here is the code I use for readin...

How to make a text file have more than one encoding?

I have a file which is ANSI encoded. However it shows Arabic letters inside it. this text file was generated by some program (I have no info on) but it seems like there is some kind of internal encoding (if I might say and if it's possible) for the Arabic letters to make appear. Is there such a thing? If not, how can the ANSI file show ...