need some help with Arabic text copy/paste, convert to unicode?
I am using a Forum script with an Arabic language pack and have to add two
arabic phrases to the Phrase Manager. The phrases a New Thread New Reply I don't speak/read Arabic but a friend translated the phrases for me: ???? ????? ???? ???? I copied these from a Word doc and don't know how they will dispay when I post this.. I do see that it's being displayed in the wrong direction if I compare it to the Word doc, but I'm not even sure if I'm seeing it right in the Word doc.. You can see the attachment in this post I wrote on the forum of the Forum script: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186111 Anyway, the problem is that when I copy the phrases from the Word doc in the Phrase Manager then something goes wrong. The first word becomes the second word and vice versa, and in the second word the first letter has to be at the end of the word. See attachement, this is how it displays on my site. I see in the phrase manager that the word Arabic (I think it means Arabic) is showed as this code: العربية My guess is that I have to input my Arabic phrases in that same code, but I don't know what that code is (unicode?), or how to convert the Arabic phrases that my friend wrote into such code. I've installed Windows right-to-left language support on my pc and I added Arabic to the language manager, but I think that that would be only useful when I would type the words letter by letter and not when I copy/paste. But since I don't have an Arabic keyboard and don't know the Arabic letters all I can do is copy/paste. Can someone please help? Thanks, Rik. |
need some help with Arabic text copy/paste, convert to unicode?
"Rik" wrote in message ... I am using a Forum script with an Arabic language pack and have to add two arabic phrases to the Phrase Manager. The phrases a New Thread New Reply I don't speak/read Arabic but a friend translated the phrases for me: ???? ????? ???? ???? I copied these from a Word doc and don't know how they will dispay when I post this.. I do see that it's being displayed in the wrong direction if I compare it to the Word doc, but I'm not even sure if I'm seeing it right in the Word doc.. You can see the attachment in this post I wrote on the forum of the Forum script: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186111 Anyway, the problem is that when I copy the phrases from the Word doc in the Phrase Manager then something goes wrong. The first word becomes the second word and vice versa, and in the second word the first letter has to be at the end of the word. See attachement, this is how it displays on my site. I see in the phrase manager that the word Arabic (I think it means Arabic) is showed as this code: العربية My guess is that I have to input my Arabic phrases in that same code, but I don't know what that code is (unicode?), or how to convert the Arabic phrases that my friend wrote into such code. I've installed Windows right-to-left language support on my pc and I added Arabic to the language manager, but I think that that would be only useful when I would type the words letter by letter and not when I copy/paste. But since I don't have an Arabic keyboard and don't know the Arabic letters all I can do is copy/paste. Can someone please help? Thanks, Rik. Copy & paste works very nicely with Arabic text, provided that the copy-from and the paste-to applications support Arabic characters. Outlook Express does not, hence your Arabic text appears as question marks. I copied the words from the site you quoted and pasted them into Microsoft Word without any problems. You can type Arabic text on your normal keyboard by using the keyboard map shown he http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/r...keyboards.mspx Make sure to use IE6 when accessing this site. You will find that Alif (a vertical bar) is mapped to H, Ba (the bathtub with a dot below) is mapped to F and Ya (looks like a big S) is mapped to D. If you're keen to find out the character codes used then have a look at these lines from a binary lister of my Word document containing two lines: 111, two Arabic words, 222 333, two more Arabic words, 444 Here is the hex code: 000A00 31 00 31 00 31 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A10 39 06 45 06 48 06 36 06 32 00 32 00 32 00 0D 00 000A20 33 00 33 00 33 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A30 28 06 2C 06 48 06 27 06 34 00 34 00 34 00 0D 00 And here are the details: Line A00: 111,ArabicWord,Space Line A10: ArabicWord,222,NewLine Line A20: 333,ArabicWord,Space Line A30: ArabicWord,444,NewLine |
need some help with Arabic text copy/paste, convert to unicode?
I am using a Forum script with an Arabic language pack and have to add
two arabic phrases to the Phrase Manager. The phrases a New Thread New Reply I don't speak/read Arabic but a friend translated the phrases for me: ???? ????? ???? ???? I copied these from a Word doc and don't know how they will dispay when I post this.. I do see that it's being displayed in the wrong direction if I compare it to the Word doc, but I'm not even sure if I'm seeing it right in the Word doc.. You can see the attachment in this post I wrote on the forum of the Forum script: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186111 Anyway, the problem is that when I copy the phrases from the Word doc in the Phrase Manager then something goes wrong. The first word becomes the second word and vice versa, and in the second word the first letter has to be at the end of the word. See attachement, this is how it displays on my site. I see in the phrase manager that the word Arabic (I think it means Arabic) is showed as this code: العربية My guess is that I have to input my Arabic phrases in that same code, but I don't know what that code is (unicode?), or how to convert the Arabic phrases that my friend wrote into such code. I've installed Windows right-to-left language support on my pc and I added Arabic to the language manager, but I think that that would be only useful when I would type the words letter by letter and not when I copy/paste. But since I don't have an Arabic keyboard and don't know the Arabic letters all I can do is copy/paste. Can someone please help? Thanks, Rik. Copy & paste works very nicely with Arabic text, provided that the copy-from and the paste-to applications support Arabic characters. Outlook Express does not, hence your Arabic text appears as question marks. I copied the words from the site you quoted and pasted them into Microsoft Word without any problems. You can type Arabic text on your normal keyboard by using the keyboard map shown he http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/r...keyboards.mspx Make sure to use IE6 when accessing this site. You will find that Alif (a vertical bar) is mapped to H, Ba (the bathtub with a dot below) is mapped to F and Ya (looks like a big S) is mapped to D. If you're keen to find out the character codes used then have a look at these lines from a binary lister of my Word document containing two lines: 111, two Arabic words, 222 333, two more Arabic words, 444 Here is the hex code: 000A00 31 00 31 00 31 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A10 39 06 45 06 48 06 36 06 32 00 32 00 32 00 0D 00 000A20 33 00 33 00 33 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A30 28 06 2C 06 48 06 27 06 34 00 34 00 34 00 0D 00 And here are the details: Line A00: 111,ArabicWord,Space Line A10: ArabicWord,222,NewLine Line A20: 333,ArabicWord,Space Line A30: ArabicWord,444,NewLine Hi, Thanks for your reply. Perhaps the problem is the Admin Control Panel of the Forum script in which I have to copy the Arabic text. Obviously it does support Arabic characters because after I pasted the Arabic text in the phrase manager in the admin, the Arabic characters do display on the forum itself. But for some reason when I paste the text it appears in the wrong order. Even when I do it word by word it goes wrong. I took a look at the keyboard map on the link that you gave, but I don't know the Arabic alphabet so I don't know how to use the map. I still don't know what would be the best way to get those two phrases displaying the way they should. The only thing I can think of is to compare each letter with the letters on the map and find the one that corresponds with it. That should work for just these two phrases but when I need to enter more text then it would be too time-consuming. I was hoping that there was some kind of tool available for this. |
need some help with Arabic text copy/paste, convert to unicode?
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"Rik" wrote in message ... I am using a Forum script with an Arabic language pack and have to add two arabic phrases to the Phrase Manager. The phrases a New Thread New Reply I don't speak/read Arabic but a friend translated the phrases for me: ???? ????? ???? ???? I copied these from a Word doc and don't know how they will dispay when I post this.. I do see that it's being displayed in the wrong direction if I compare it to the Word doc, but I'm not even sure if I'm seeing it right in the Word doc.. You can see the attachment in this post I wrote on the forum of the Forum script: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186111 Anyway, the problem is that when I copy the phrases from the Word doc in the Phrase Manager then something goes wrong. The first word becomes the second word and vice versa, and in the second word the first letter has to be at the end of the word. See attachement, this is how it displays on my site. I see in the phrase manager that the word Arabic (I think it means Arabic) is showed as this code: العربية My guess is that I have to input my Arabic phrases in that same code, but I don't know what that code is (unicode?), or how to convert the Arabic phrases that my friend wrote into such code. I've installed Windows right-to-left language support on my pc and I added Arabic to the language manager, but I think that that would be only useful when I would type the words letter by letter and not when I copy/paste. But since I don't have an Arabic keyboard and don't know the Arabic letters all I can do is copy/paste. Can someone please help? Thanks, Rik. Copy & paste works very nicely with Arabic text, provided that the copy-from and the paste-to applications support Arabic characters. Outlook Express does not, hence your Arabic text appears as question marks. I copied the words from the site you quoted and pasted them into Microsoft Word without any problems. You can type Arabic text on your normal keyboard by using the keyboard map shown he http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/r...keyboards.mspx Make sure to use IE6 when accessing this site. You will find that Alif (a vertical bar) is mapped to H, Ba (the bathtub with a dot below) is mapped to F and Ya (looks like a big S) is mapped to D. If you're keen to find out the character codes used then have a look at these lines from a binary lister of my Word document containing two lines: 111, two Arabic words, 222 333, two more Arabic words, 444 Here is the hex code: 000A00 31 00 31 00 31 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A10 39 06 45 06 48 06 36 06 32 00 32 00 32 00 0D 00 000A20 33 00 33 00 33 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A30 28 06 2C 06 48 06 27 06 34 00 34 00 34 00 0D 00 And here are the details: Line A00: 111,ArabicWord,Space Line A10: ArabicWord,222,NewLine Line A20: 333,ArabicWord,Space Line A30: ArabicWord,444,NewLine Hi, Thanks for your reply. Perhaps the problem is the Admin Control Panel of the Forum script in which I have to copy the Arabic text. Obviously it does support Arabic characters because after I pasted the Arabic text in the phrase manager in the admin, the Arabic characters do display on the forum itself. But for some reason when I paste the text it appears in the wrong order. Even when I do it word by word it goes wrong. I took a look at the keyboard map on the link that you gave, but I don't know the Arabic alphabet so I don't know how to use the map. I still don't know what would be the best way to get those two phrases displaying the way they should. The only thing I can think of is to compare each letter with the letters on the map and find the one that corresponds with it. That should work for just these two phrases but when I need to enter more text then it would be too time-consuming. I was hoping that there was some kind of tool available for this. Retyping the text is not an option unless you know the Arabic alphabet, because the same letter appears in different shapes, depending on its position in a word. The keyboard map shows only one of four possible shapes! Your first step should be to determine if Forum Script handles Arabic text correctly. I suggest you try this: 1. Launch Forum Script. 2. Switch your keyboard into Arabic mode. 3. Press these letters on your keyboard: fdj. It is the word for "house" and it should look like the attachment to this reply. 4. Repeat the same exercise in Microsoft Word. |
need some help with Arabic text copy/paste, convert to unicode?
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I am using a Forum script with an Arabic language pack and have to add
two arabic phrases to the Phrase Manager. The phrases a New Thread New Reply I don't speak/read Arabic but a friend translated the phrases for me: ???? ????? ???? ???? I copied these from a Word doc and don't know how they will dispay when I post this.. I do see that it's being displayed in the wrong direction if I compare it to the Word doc, but I'm not even sure if I'm seeing it right in the Word doc.. You can see the attachment in this post I wrote on the forum of the Forum script: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186111 Anyway, the problem is that when I copy the phrases from the Word doc in the Phrase Manager then something goes wrong. The first word becomes the second word and vice versa, and in the second word the first letter has to be at the end of the word. See attachement, this is how it displays on my site. I see in the phrase manager that the word Arabic (I think it means Arabic) is showed as this code: العربية My guess is that I have to input my Arabic phrases in that same code, but I don't know what that code is (unicode?), or how to convert the Arabic phrases that my friend wrote into such code. I've installed Windows right-to-left language support on my pc and I added Arabic to the language manager, but I think that that would be only useful when I would type the words letter by letter and not when I copy/paste. But since I don't have an Arabic keyboard and don't know the Arabic letters all I can do is copy/paste. Can someone please help? Thanks, Rik. Copy & paste works very nicely with Arabic text, provided that the copy-from and the paste-to applications support Arabic characters. Outlook Express does not, hence your Arabic text appears as question marks. I copied the words from the site you quoted and pasted them into Microsoft Word without any problems. You can type Arabic text on your normal keyboard by using the keyboard map shown he http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/r...keyboards.mspx Make sure to use IE6 when accessing this site. You will find that Alif (a vertical bar) is mapped to H, Ba (the bathtub with a dot below) is mapped to F and Ya (looks like a big S) is mapped to D. If you're keen to find out the character codes used then have a look at these lines from a binary lister of my Word document containing two lines: 111, two Arabic words, 222 333, two more Arabic words, 444 Here is the hex code: 000A00 31 00 31 00 31 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A10 39 06 45 06 48 06 36 06 32 00 32 00 32 00 0D 00 000A20 33 00 33 00 33 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A30 28 06 2C 06 48 06 27 06 34 00 34 00 34 00 0D 00 And here are the details: Line A00: 111,ArabicWord,Space Line A10: ArabicWord,222,NewLine Line A20: 333,ArabicWord,Space Line A30: ArabicWord,444,NewLine Hi, Thanks for your reply. Perhaps the problem is the Admin Control Panel of the Forum script in which I have to copy the Arabic text. Obviously it does support Arabic characters because after I pasted the Arabic text in the phrase manager in the admin, the Arabic characters do display on the forum itself. But for some reason when I paste the text it appears in the wrong order. Even when I do it word by word it goes wrong. I took a look at the keyboard map on the link that you gave, but I don't know the Arabic alphabet so I don't know how to use the map. I still don't know what would be the best way to get those two phrases displaying the way they should. The only thing I can think of is to compare each letter with the letters on the map and find the one that corresponds with it. That should work for just these two phrases but when I need to enter more text then it would be too time-consuming. I was hoping that there was some kind of tool available for this. Retyping the text is not an option unless you know the Arabic alphabet, because the same letter appears in different shapes, depending on its position in a word. The keyboard map shows only one of four possible shapes! Your first step should be to determine if Forum Script handles Arabic text correctly. I suggest you try this: 1. Launch Forum Script. 2. Switch your keyboard into Arabic mode. 3. Press these letters on your keyboard: fdj. It is the word for "house" and it should look like the attachment to this reply. 4. Repeat the same exercise in Microsoft Word. Okay thanks. I did what you said (see attachment, at the top you see the Arabic in the Forum Script, at the bottom the Arabic in Microsoft Word). I think it looks like your attachment. It doesn't look 100% the same but that's probable because the font types aren't the same. What should I do next? |
need some help with Arabic text copy/paste, convert to unicode?
"Rik" wrote in message ... I am using a Forum script with an Arabic language pack and have to add two arabic phrases to the Phrase Manager. The phrases a New Thread New Reply I don't speak/read Arabic but a friend translated the phrases for me: ???? ????? ???? ???? I copied these from a Word doc and don't know how they will dispay when I post this.. I do see that it's being displayed in the wrong direction if I compare it to the Word doc, but I'm not even sure if I'm seeing it right in the Word doc.. You can see the attachment in this post I wrote on the forum of the Forum script: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186111 Anyway, the problem is that when I copy the phrases from the Word doc in the Phrase Manager then something goes wrong. The first word becomes the second word and vice versa, and in the second word the first letter has to be at the end of the word. See attachement, this is how it displays on my site. I see in the phrase manager that the word Arabic (I think it means Arabic) is showed as this code: العربية My guess is that I have to input my Arabic phrases in that same code, but I don't know what that code is (unicode?), or how to convert the Arabic phrases that my friend wrote into such code. I've installed Windows right-to-left language support on my pc and I added Arabic to the language manager, but I think that that would be only useful when I would type the words letter by letter and not when I copy/paste. But since I don't have an Arabic keyboard and don't know the Arabic letters all I can do is copy/paste. Can someone please help? Thanks, Rik. Copy & paste works very nicely with Arabic text, provided that the copy-from and the paste-to applications support Arabic characters. Outlook Express does not, hence your Arabic text appears as question marks. I copied the words from the site you quoted and pasted them into Microsoft Word without any problems. You can type Arabic text on your normal keyboard by using the keyboard map shown he http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/r...keyboards.mspx Make sure to use IE6 when accessing this site. You will find that Alif (a vertical bar) is mapped to H, Ba (the bathtub with a dot below) is mapped to F and Ya (looks like a big S) is mapped to D. If you're keen to find out the character codes used then have a look at these lines from a binary lister of my Word document containing two lines: 111, two Arabic words, 222 333, two more Arabic words, 444 Here is the hex code: 000A00 31 00 31 00 31 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A10 39 06 45 06 48 06 36 06 32 00 32 00 32 00 0D 00 000A20 33 00 33 00 33 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A30 28 06 2C 06 48 06 27 06 34 00 34 00 34 00 0D 00 And here are the details: Line A00: 111,ArabicWord,Space Line A10: ArabicWord,222,NewLine Line A20: 333,ArabicWord,Space Line A30: ArabicWord,444,NewLine Hi, Thanks for your reply. Perhaps the problem is the Admin Control Panel of the Forum script in which I have to copy the Arabic text. Obviously it does support Arabic characters because after I pasted the Arabic text in the phrase manager in the admin, the Arabic characters do display on the forum itself. But for some reason when I paste the text it appears in the wrong order. Even when I do it word by word it goes wrong. I took a look at the keyboard map on the link that you gave, but I don't know the Arabic alphabet so I don't know how to use the map. I still don't know what would be the best way to get those two phrases displaying the way they should. The only thing I can think of is to compare each letter with the letters on the map and find the one that corresponds with it. That should work for just these two phrases but when I need to enter more text then it would be too time-consuming. I was hoping that there was some kind of tool available for this. Retyping the text is not an option unless you know the Arabic alphabet, because the same letter appears in different shapes, depending on its position in a word. The keyboard map shows only one of four possible shapes! Your first step should be to determine if Forum Script handles Arabic text correctly. I suggest you try this: 1. Launch Forum Script. 2. Switch your keyboard into Arabic mode. 3. Press these letters on your keyboard: fdj. It is the word for "house" and it should look like the attachment to this reply. 4. Repeat the same exercise in Microsoft Word. Okay thanks. I did what you said (see attachment, at the top you see the Arabic in the Forum Script, at the bottom the Arabic in Microsoft Word). I think it looks like your attachment. It doesn't look 100% the same but that's probable because the font types aren't the same. What should I do next? The two words are the same. Now seeing that you had a problem with copying Arabic text, repeat this exercise with a copy/paste process into Forum Script and into Microsoft Word, making sure in each case that you have the Arabic keyboard enabled. Start with only two or three words. |
need some help with Arabic text copy/paste, convert to unicode?
I am using a Forum script with an Arabic language pack and have to
add two arabic phrases to the Phrase Manager. The phrases a New Thread New Reply I don't speak/read Arabic but a friend translated the phrases for me: ???? ????? ???? ???? I copied these from a Word doc and don't know how they will dispay when I post this.. I do see that it's being displayed in the wrong direction if I compare it to the Word doc, but I'm not even sure if I'm seeing it right in the Word doc.. You can see the attachment in this post I wrote on the forum of the Forum script: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186111 Anyway, the problem is that when I copy the phrases from the Word doc in the Phrase Manager then something goes wrong. The first word becomes the second word and vice versa, and in the second word the first letter has to be at the end of the word. See attachement, this is how it displays on my site. I see in the phrase manager that the word Arabic (I think it means Arabic) is showed as this code: العربية My guess is that I have to input my Arabic phrases in that same code, but I don't know what that code is (unicode?), or how to convert the Arabic phrases that my friend wrote into such code. I've installed Windows right-to-left language support on my pc and I added Arabic to the language manager, but I think that that would be only useful when I would type the words letter by letter and not when I copy/paste. But since I don't have an Arabic keyboard and don't know the Arabic letters all I can do is copy/paste. Can someone please help? Thanks, Rik. Copy & paste works very nicely with Arabic text, provided that the copy-from and the paste-to applications support Arabic characters. Outlook Express does not, hence your Arabic text appears as question marks. I copied the words from the site you quoted and pasted them into Microsoft Word without any problems. You can type Arabic text on your normal keyboard by using the keyboard map shown he http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/r...keyboards.mspx Make sure to use IE6 when accessing this site. You will find that Alif (a vertical bar) is mapped to H, Ba (the bathtub with a dot below) is mapped to F and Ya (looks like a big S) is mapped to D. If you're keen to find out the character codes used then have a look at these lines from a binary lister of my Word document containing two lines: 111, two Arabic words, 222 333, two more Arabic words, 444 Here is the hex code: 000A00 31 00 31 00 31 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A10 39 06 45 06 48 06 36 06 32 00 32 00 32 00 0D 00 000A20 33 00 33 00 33 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A30 28 06 2C 06 48 06 27 06 34 00 34 00 34 00 0D 00 And here are the details: Line A00: 111,ArabicWord,Space Line A10: ArabicWord,222,NewLine Line A20: 333,ArabicWord,Space Line A30: ArabicWord,444,NewLine Hi, Thanks for your reply. Perhaps the problem is the Admin Control Panel of the Forum script in which I have to copy the Arabic text. Obviously it does support Arabic characters because after I pasted the Arabic text in the phrase manager in the admin, the Arabic characters do display on the forum itself. But for some reason when I paste the text it appears in the wrong order. Even when I do it word by word it goes wrong. I took a look at the keyboard map on the link that you gave, but I don't know the Arabic alphabet so I don't know how to use the map. I still don't know what would be the best way to get those two phrases displaying the way they should. The only thing I can think of is to compare each letter with the letters on the map and find the one that corresponds with it. That should work for just these two phrases but when I need to enter more text then it would be too time-consuming. I was hoping that there was some kind of tool available for this. Retyping the text is not an option unless you know the Arabic alphabet, because the same letter appears in different shapes, depending on its position in a word. The keyboard map shows only one of four possible shapes! Your first step should be to determine if Forum Script handles Arabic text correctly. I suggest you try this: 1. Launch Forum Script. 2. Switch your keyboard into Arabic mode. 3. Press these letters on your keyboard: fdj. It is the word for "house" and it should look like the attachment to this reply. 4. Repeat the same exercise in Microsoft Word. Okay thanks. I did what you said (see attachment, at the top you see the Arabic in the Forum Script, at the bottom the Arabic in Microsoft Word). I think it looks like your attachment. It doesn't look 100% the same but that's probable because the font types aren't the same. What should I do next? The two words are the same. Now seeing that you had a problem with copying Arabic text, repeat this exercise with a copy/paste process into Forum Script and into Microsoft Word, making sure in each case that you have the Arabic keyboard enabled. Start with only two or three words. Okay, but what words? I don't know any Arabic words, lol. Or do you mean that I should copy the word (as in my attachement in my previous post) from Microsoft Word into the Forum Script? I could copy the Arabic words from the Word document that my friend sent me, but I'm not sure if I am seeing it correct, if you know what I mean. |
need some help with Arabic text copy/paste, convert to unicode?
"Rik" wrote in message ... I am using a Forum script with an Arabic language pack and have to add two arabic phrases to the Phrase Manager. The phrases a New Thread New Reply I don't speak/read Arabic but a friend translated the phrases for me: ???? ????? ???? ???? I copied these from a Word doc and don't know how they will dispay when I post this.. I do see that it's being displayed in the wrong direction if I compare it to the Word doc, but I'm not even sure if I'm seeing it right in the Word doc.. You can see the attachment in this post I wrote on the forum of the Forum script: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186111 Anyway, the problem is that when I copy the phrases from the Word doc in the Phrase Manager then something goes wrong. The first word becomes the second word and vice versa, and in the second word the first letter has to be at the end of the word. See attachement, this is how it displays on my site. I see in the phrase manager that the word Arabic (I think it means Arabic) is showed as this code: العربية My guess is that I have to input my Arabic phrases in that same code, but I don't know what that code is (unicode?), or how to convert the Arabic phrases that my friend wrote into such code. I've installed Windows right-to-left language support on my pc and I added Arabic to the language manager, but I think that that would be only useful when I would type the words letter by letter and not when I copy/paste. But since I don't have an Arabic keyboard and don't know the Arabic letters all I can do is copy/paste. Can someone please help? Thanks, Rik. Copy & paste works very nicely with Arabic text, provided that the copy-from and the paste-to applications support Arabic characters. Outlook Express does not, hence your Arabic text appears as question marks. I copied the words from the site you quoted and pasted them into Microsoft Word without any problems. You can type Arabic text on your normal keyboard by using the keyboard map shown he http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/r...keyboards.mspx Make sure to use IE6 when accessing this site. You will find that Alif (a vertical bar) is mapped to H, Ba (the bathtub with a dot below) is mapped to F and Ya (looks like a big S) is mapped to D. If you're keen to find out the character codes used then have a look at these lines from a binary lister of my Word document containing two lines: 111, two Arabic words, 222 333, two more Arabic words, 444 Here is the hex code: 000A00 31 00 31 00 31 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A10 39 06 45 06 48 06 36 06 32 00 32 00 32 00 0D 00 000A20 33 00 33 00 33 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A30 28 06 2C 06 48 06 27 06 34 00 34 00 34 00 0D 00 And here are the details: Line A00: 111,ArabicWord,Space Line A10: ArabicWord,222,NewLine Line A20: 333,ArabicWord,Space Line A30: ArabicWord,444,NewLine Hi, Thanks for your reply. Perhaps the problem is the Admin Control Panel of the Forum script in which I have to copy the Arabic text. Obviously it does support Arabic characters because after I pasted the Arabic text in the phrase manager in the admin, the Arabic characters do display on the forum itself. But for some reason when I paste the text it appears in the wrong order. Even when I do it word by word it goes wrong. I took a look at the keyboard map on the link that you gave, but I don't know the Arabic alphabet so I don't know how to use the map. I still don't know what would be the best way to get those two phrases displaying the way they should. The only thing I can think of is to compare each letter with the letters on the map and find the one that corresponds with it. That should work for just these two phrases but when I need to enter more text then it would be too time-consuming. I was hoping that there was some kind of tool available for this. Retyping the text is not an option unless you know the Arabic alphabet, because the same letter appears in different shapes, depending on its position in a word. The keyboard map shows only one of four possible shapes! Your first step should be to determine if Forum Script handles Arabic text correctly. I suggest you try this: 1. Launch Forum Script. 2. Switch your keyboard into Arabic mode. 3. Press these letters on your keyboard: fdj. It is the word for "house" and it should look like the attachment to this reply. 4. Repeat the same exercise in Microsoft Word. Okay thanks. I did what you said (see attachment, at the top you see the Arabic in the Forum Script, at the bottom the Arabic in Microsoft Word). I think it looks like your attachment. It doesn't look 100% the same but that's probable because the font types aren't the same. What should I do next? The two words are the same. Now seeing that you had a problem with copying Arabic text, repeat this exercise with a copy/paste process into Forum Script and into Microsoft Word, making sure in each case that you have the Arabic keyboard enabled. Start with only two or three words. Okay, but what words? I don't know any Arabic words, lol. Or do you mean that I should copy the word (as in my attachement in my previous post) from Microsoft Word into the Forum Script? I could copy the Arabic words from the Word document that my friend sent me, but I'm not sure if I am seeing it correct, if you know what I mean. We seem to have lost our way. What exactly are you trying to achieve, and what does not work? |
need some help with Arabic text copy/paste, convert to unicode?
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"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote in message ... "Rik" wrote in message ... I am using a Forum script with an Arabic language pack and have to add two arabic phrases to the Phrase Manager. The phrases a New Thread New Reply I don't speak/read Arabic but a friend translated the phrases for me: ???? ????? ???? ???? I copied these from a Word doc and don't know how they will dispay when I post this.. I do see that it's being displayed in the wrong direction if I compare it to the Word doc, but I'm not even sure if I'm seeing it right in the Word doc.. You can see the attachment in this post I wrote on the forum of the Forum script: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186111 Anyway, the problem is that when I copy the phrases from the Word doc in the Phrase Manager then something goes wrong. The first word becomes the second word and vice versa, and in the second word the first letter has to be at the end of the word. See attachement, this is how it displays on my site. I see in the phrase manager that the word Arabic (I think it means Arabic) is showed as this code: العربية My guess is that I have to input my Arabic phrases in that same code, but I don't know what that code is (unicode?), or how to convert the Arabic phrases that my friend wrote into such code. I've installed Windows right-to-left language support on my pc and I added Arabic to the language manager, but I think that that would be only useful when I would type the words letter by letter and not when I copy/paste. But since I don't have an Arabic keyboard and don't know the Arabic letters all I can do is copy/paste. Can someone please help? Thanks, Rik. Copy & paste works very nicely with Arabic text, provided that the copy-from and the paste-to applications support Arabic characters. Outlook Express does not, hence your Arabic text appears as question marks. I copied the words from the site you quoted and pasted them into Microsoft Word without any problems. You can type Arabic text on your normal keyboard by using the keyboard map shown he http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/r...keyboards.mspx Make sure to use IE6 when accessing this site. You will find that Alif (a vertical bar) is mapped to H, Ba (the bathtub with a dot below) is mapped to F and Ya (looks like a big S) is mapped to D. If you're keen to find out the character codes used then have a look at these lines from a binary lister of my Word document containing two lines: 111, two Arabic words, 222 333, two more Arabic words, 444 Here is the hex code: 000A00 31 00 31 00 31 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A10 39 06 45 06 48 06 36 06 32 00 32 00 32 00 0D 00 000A20 33 00 33 00 33 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A30 28 06 2C 06 48 06 27 06 34 00 34 00 34 00 0D 00 And here are the details: Line A00: 111,ArabicWord,Space Line A10: ArabicWord,222,NewLine Line A20: 333,ArabicWord,Space Line A30: ArabicWord,444,NewLine Hi, Thanks for your reply. Perhaps the problem is the Admin Control Panel of the Forum script in which I have to copy the Arabic text. Obviously it does support Arabic characters because after I pasted the Arabic text in the phrase manager in the admin, the Arabic characters do display on the forum itself. But for some reason when I paste the text it appears in the wrong order. Even when I do it word by word it goes wrong. I took a look at the keyboard map on the link that you gave, but I don't know the Arabic alphabet so I don't know how to use the map. I still don't know what would be the best way to get those two phrases displaying the way they should. The only thing I can think of is to compare each letter with the letters on the map and find the one that corresponds with it. That should work for just these two phrases but when I need to enter more text then it would be too time-consuming. I was hoping that there was some kind of tool available for this. Retyping the text is not an option unless you know the Arabic alphabet, because the same letter appears in different shapes, depending on its position in a word. The keyboard map shows only one of four possible shapes! Your first step should be to determine if Forum Script handles Arabic text correctly. I suggest you try this: 1. Launch Forum Script. 2. Switch your keyboard into Arabic mode. 3. Press these letters on your keyboard: fdj. It is the word for "house" and it should look like the attachment to this reply. 4. Repeat the same exercise in Microsoft Word. Okay thanks. I did what you said (see attachment, at the top you see the Arabic in the Forum Script, at the bottom the Arabic in Microsoft Word). I think it looks like your attachment. It doesn't look 100% the same but that's probable because the font types aren't the same. What should I do next? The two words are the same. Now seeing that you had a problem with copying Arabic text, repeat this exercise with a copy/paste process into Forum Script and into Microsoft Word, making sure in each case that you have the Arabic keyboard enabled. Start with only two or three words. Okay, but what words? I don't know any Arabic words, lol. Or do you mean that I should copy the word (as in my attachement in my previous post) from Microsoft Word into the Forum Script? I could copy the Arabic words from the Word document that my friend sent me, but I'm not sure if I am seeing it correct, if you know what I mean. We seem to have lost our way. What exactly are you trying to achieve, and what does not work? That was I was trying to figure out, LOL. But you're right, we had lost our way, or at least I had. Anyway, with Arabic installed I noticed that if I copied/pasted word by word that I got the same result as in the Word document that my friend sent me. The only thing is that I am not sure if what I am seeing in the Word document is what I should be seeing, if you know what I mean. I made an attachment of the two phrases that I added, and another line that someone else translated some time ago. It should say something like: 'Cafe: General Discussions Discuss anything on- or off-topic in this forum.' Could you please tell me if it all makes sense? Thanks. |
need some help with Arabic text copy/paste, convert to unicode?
"Rik" wrote in message ... "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote in message ... "Rik" wrote in message ... I am using a Forum script with an Arabic language pack and have to add two arabic phrases to the Phrase Manager. The phrases a New Thread New Reply I don't speak/read Arabic but a friend translated the phrases for me: ???? ????? ???? ???? I copied these from a Word doc and don't know how they will dispay when I post this.. I do see that it's being displayed in the wrong direction if I compare it to the Word doc, but I'm not even sure if I'm seeing it right in the Word doc.. You can see the attachment in this post I wrote on the forum of the Forum script: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=186111 Anyway, the problem is that when I copy the phrases from the Word doc in the Phrase Manager then something goes wrong. The first word becomes the second word and vice versa, and in the second word the first letter has to be at the end of the word. See attachement, this is how it displays on my site. I see in the phrase manager that the word Arabic (I think it means Arabic) is showed as this code: العربية My guess is that I have to input my Arabic phrases in that same code, but I don't know what that code is (unicode?), or how to convert the Arabic phrases that my friend wrote into such code. I've installed Windows right-to-left language support on my pc and I added Arabic to the language manager, but I think that that would be only useful when I would type the words letter by letter and not when I copy/paste. But since I don't have an Arabic keyboard and don't know the Arabic letters all I can do is copy/paste. Can someone please help? Thanks, Rik. Copy & paste works very nicely with Arabic text, provided that the copy-from and the paste-to applications support Arabic characters. Outlook Express does not, hence your Arabic text appears as question marks. I copied the words from the site you quoted and pasted them into Microsoft Word without any problems. You can type Arabic text on your normal keyboard by using the keyboard map shown he http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/r...keyboards.mspx Make sure to use IE6 when accessing this site. You will find that Alif (a vertical bar) is mapped to H, Ba (the bathtub with a dot below) is mapped to F and Ya (looks like a big S) is mapped to D. If you're keen to find out the character codes used then have a look at these lines from a binary lister of my Word document containing two lines: 111, two Arabic words, 222 333, two more Arabic words, 444 Here is the hex code: 000A00 31 00 31 00 31 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A10 39 06 45 06 48 06 36 06 32 00 32 00 32 00 0D 00 000A20 33 00 33 00 33 00 2C 06 2F 06 4A 06 2F 06 20 00 000A30 28 06 2C 06 48 06 27 06 34 00 34 00 34 00 0D 00 And here are the details: Line A00: 111,ArabicWord,Space Line A10: ArabicWord,222,NewLine Line A20: 333,ArabicWord,Space Line A30: ArabicWord,444,NewLine Hi, Thanks for your reply. Perhaps the problem is the Admin Control Panel of the Forum script in which I have to copy the Arabic text. Obviously it does support Arabic characters because after I pasted the Arabic text in the phrase manager in the admin, the Arabic characters do display on the forum itself. But for some reason when I paste the text it appears in the wrong order. Even when I do it word by word it goes wrong. I took a look at the keyboard map on the link that you gave, but I don't know the Arabic alphabet so I don't know how to use the map. I still don't know what would be the best way to get those two phrases displaying the way they should. The only thing I can think of is to compare each letter with the letters on the map and find the one that corresponds with it. That should work for just these two phrases but when I need to enter more text then it would be too time-consuming. I was hoping that there was some kind of tool available for this. Retyping the text is not an option unless you know the Arabic alphabet, because the same letter appears in different shapes, depending on its position in a word. The keyboard map shows only one of four possible shapes! Your first step should be to determine if Forum Script handles Arabic text correctly. I suggest you try this: 1. Launch Forum Script. 2. Switch your keyboard into Arabic mode. 3. Press these letters on your keyboard: fdj. It is the word for "house" and it should look like the attachment to this reply. 4. Repeat the same exercise in Microsoft Word. Okay thanks. I did what you said (see attachment, at the top you see the Arabic in the Forum Script, at the bottom the Arabic in Microsoft Word). I think it looks like your attachment. It doesn't look 100% the same but that's probable because the font types aren't the same. What should I do next? The two words are the same. Now seeing that you had a problem with copying Arabic text, repeat this exercise with a copy/paste process into Forum Script and into Microsoft Word, making sure in each case that you have the Arabic keyboard enabled. Start with only two or three words. Okay, but what words? I don't know any Arabic words, lol. Or do you mean that I should copy the word (as in my attachement in my previous post) from Microsoft Word into the Forum Script? I could copy the Arabic words from the Word document that my friend sent me, but I'm not sure if I am seeing it correct, if you know what I mean. We seem to have lost our way. What exactly are you trying to achieve, and what does not work? That was I was trying to figure out, LOL. But you're right, we had lost our way, or at least I had. Anyway, with Arabic installed I noticed that if I copied/pasted word by word that I got the same result as in the Word document that my friend sent me. The only thing is that I am not sure if what I am seeing in the Word document is what I should be seeing, if you know what I mean. I made an attachment of the two phrases that I added, and another line that someone else translated some time ago. It should say something like: 'Cafe: General Discussions Discuss anything on- or off-topic in this forum.' Could you please tell me if it all makes sense? Thanks. My knowledge of Arabic is insufficient to say whether the text is what you think it is. However, if it looks the same as the source text then it must be right. A visual comparison will tell you. |
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