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Old May 24th 06, 01:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default 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

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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.


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