@Cedric

It is weird and crazy.I know it's happening, so there's no need to show the client.

PS I haven't taken hallucinogens in quite sometime so I'm ruling out a Flashback. Other people see it too.


Mike Grunwald

McDill Design
626 N Water St
Milwaukee, WI 53202
414.277.8111
mcdilldesign.com

On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Cedric Muller wrote:

OT but could you open the XLS and take a snapshot of the text, and then send to your client, to check if it is correct. Then, if ok, could you copy / paste this text into another document (like word, txt, xml) and take snapshots in order to send them to your client ?

I find 'the order of words rearranged' very weird, almost crazy.

hth,
Cedric

Not a stupid question @Ian.

It's not a matter of each individual character reversing the order. If it were I could convert the string to an array and reorder it ah la:

var myCharity_L2R:String = myXML.ARB.CHARITY;
var myCharity_R2L:String = myCharity_L2R.split("").reverse().join ("");

The actual problem is it's taking the order of words and rearranging them. And to answer you, it's not displaying properly in the SWF.



On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Ian Thomas wrote:

This is probably a stupid question - but does it matter?

By which I mean - it may flip RTL text so that it's LTR in the XML
file, but when it actually gets to the screen, is it still flipped?
Can you control the flipping in the display on the screen, rather than
worrying about it in the XML file?

Ian

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Mike Grunwald
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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