I just finished developing an english website, with arabic ( http://www.nakheelharbour.com/).
Actually the arabic isnt ready due the complications I found in my way. I tried a lot of things... Load xmls with arabic text, load css to align to right, use system fonts, embedding fonts, etc etc etc. We had feedback from arabic client, and he said that in all cases, the text seems wrong for him. In our eastern computers, the text was right, but when they test, the text changes a lot and is broken, without their ligatures. Honestly, I found a pain in the ass make it work, dont know if CS4 have support for unicode chars, and I finished doing a very boring alternative: Putting images or vectors in arabic version. Mike, even when you finish your work, make sure someone with arabic OS make tests of it. Best, Fabio On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Glen Pike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is just a thought, but could you export the file as a CSV and use some > kind of scripting language to generate an XML file - I may be way off, but > you could set language options for PHP which might mean you are reading in > the same charset as you are writing??? > > I don't have any experience of dealing with language stuff in PHP, but it > was an idea... > > Glen > > > Mike Grunwald wrote: > >> OK... I think I've reached the end of the internet as well as the end of >> my patients. >> >> I've been trying to figure out a way to take translations that I've >> received in an Excel spreadsheet and paste them into an XML document. The >> XML is UTF-8 and it's plain text (of course). No matter what editor (Flex >> Builder 3, Dreamweaver, Text Edit, WordPad, NotePad, Word, etc.) or OS (OSX >> 10.4, Windows XP) or combination of the two, it seems that when I try to >> combine the eastern translation with western markup (XML tags, or even >> western characters for that matter), as soon as I drop in a single >> character, if flips the orientation of the translated Arabic text?!? >> >> Everything that I find on the internet leads me hopeful down a path of >> ultimate disappointment. I know that I'm not the only one with this problem >> and I'm sure one of you has experienced this. Please let me in on you >> secrets. I beg you... >> >> Let me just clarify—My problem is not font related (I've got that all >> sorted out), and for the most part it's not really Flash related (except for >> the fact that I'm using this XML content for dynamic text fields). this list >> is probably not the proper place for this question, but I'm out of options >> and I thinking that I'm going to have to scrap some of the digging I've done >> in relation to getting text to display properly and make alterations to my >> application to load images instead of live type. >> >> Somebody... Anybody.... Help a brotha out! >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- Fábio Pinatti :: web.developer :::: www.pinatti.com.br :::::: 19. 9184.3745 / 3342.1130 _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
