I have done Hebrew before, and it's pretty much the same problem. The major issue is that you have content that is Right to left, and content that is left to right. Since it is a single-byte language, you don't have to use Unicode, you just have to set the code-page to the right value.
RTL support is getting better. Last I checked (a few months ago), IE was the only one that supported it fully. Mozilla does support it, but when you have LTR text embedded inside the page (Company names, English Names, Numerals, etc), the rendering engine doesn't handle it. So, you are pretty much going to be limited to IE as a client. If you are using graphics, particularly things like pointy arrows, they will be pointing the wrong way when you set the DIR=RTL attribute for the body. Plan on this being difficult and taking a long time... -----Original Message----- From: Laurent F�ral-Pierssens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 August, 2002 1:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Arabic content Hi, We have been realizing web applications for the last 2 years using Tomcat. Last week, one of our clients asked us if we could provide a multilingual application that would contain English, French and Arabic content. My questions are vague for now. Did anyone actually produced an application with Arabic content? What should we have to take in consideration in our design and development? What are the risks and traps to avoid while coding such webapp? Is there a problem with displaying such information under Tomcat? storing it in MySQL? Those questions may actually be out of context for Tomcat. But your opinion would be much appreciated. Regards, Laurent -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
