Hello again,
You mean having a XML file saved (and encoded) as UTF-8 does not
handle it ?
Isn't UTF-8 intended for such ?
(and what if you put the Arabic parts in CDATA tags) ?
maybe this could help
<http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=9074>
(the streamBabie comment)
hth,
Cedric
@Cedric
I did see that. The problem with that is it's not XML. When I try
to wrap any of the translations in tags, the words shift order. It
has to have something to do with mixing Eastern and Western
characters. I think it's tied to the alignment. Since Arabic is
right justified, it displays properly when those are the only
characters in the document. As soon as you introduce a Western
character, it must automatically switch the justification and by
doing so it flips the order of the Eastern words.
On Dec 4, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Cedric Muller wrote:
:(
Did you see this post ?
<http://joeabiraad.com/design/how-to-write-arabic-in-flash-8/36>
hth,
Cedric
@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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