Thanks @Fabio
Mike Grunwald
McDill Design
626 N Water St
Milwaukee, WI 53202
414.277.8111
mcdilldesign.com
On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Fabio Pinatti wrote:
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!
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