Hi Bashir!
Forget about Windows-1256. This is not what you want.
What browser are you using? Internet Explorer or Mozilla? Would you
bring trying the other one, as one step?
Here's what I'd check:
- Is the page delivered to the browser as HTML or XHTML? (You can check
using the "show page source" option in your browser.)
- In case it's XHTML and in case the browser is Internet Explorer, it's
not enough to have <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>, but you
should either add an HTML meta tag like this:
<head>
...
<meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="content-type" />
...
</head>
or make sure the corresponding HTTP header is sent.
I am not that familiar with OFBiz internals to tell you how to ake this
happen, but I am sure other people on the list would be able to help.
But in order to find out if this would solve your problem or now, just
do this:
Save the page to the harddisk.
Add that <meta ...> tag manuelly to the <head> section of your HTML.
Reload the saved page from your harddisk into the browser.
I found IE wanted that extra info while Mozilla doesn't.
Regards,
Torsten
Bashir Alfetori schrieb:
Torstan,
As an example, here is a screen shot of how one label appears in the Create
Agreement Screen.
http://www.nabble.com/file/6705/ArabicLabel.JPG
The Character encoding of the browser is set by default to Unicode(UTF-8).
if changed to Arabic(Windows-1256) the second screen shot is obtained.
http://www.nabble.com/file/6706/ArabicLabel_Encoding_Windows-1256.JPG
Best regards,
Bashir
Bashir Alfetori wrote:
Torstan,
Arabic word: الرئيسية
ِAppears in the browser as: الرئيسية
The character encoding in the browser is set to Unicode (UTF-8)
Torsten Schlabach-2 wrote:
Bashir,
could you send a screenhot of how it looks like?
Regards,
Torsten
Bashir Alfetori schrieb:
Adrian
Yes, Arabic is right-to-left language. I have modified the existing
style
sheet to reverse the direction. I noticed that not every thing is ok
when
reversing direction especially in forms. Now, first I am concerned about
displaying Arabic characters even if the direction is still
left-to-right.
Till now I couldn't do that as mentioned above.
Regards,
Bashir
Adrian Crum wrote:
Bashir,
Is Arabic a right-to-left language? If yes, then you can either modify
the
existing style sheets to reverse the direction or you can leave the
existing
style sheets alone and cascade a "right-to-left" style sheet that
reverses
the
direction.
I have done some experiments with reversing the direction in OFBiz. Let
me
know
if you need any help.
-Adrian
Bashir Alfetori wrote:
I am trying to start with translating OFBiz to Arabic. I tried one
properties
file. At first I was not able to enter Arabic characters into that file
until changed the property file to support utf-8. It was ok then to
enter
Arabic characters in the properties file but in the browser the result
was
that the labels were not showing in Arabic. It was a kind of garbage
words.
I also tried to build a simple Ofbiz application in Arabic like that
shown
in the hello world tutorials but the same problem existed. Also it
seems
that every character in Arabic was displayed in the browser in three
strange
characters. The direction is still left to right. I just want to
display
Arabic characters on the browser.