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avinatbezeqint -> No right to left support? (4/20/2007 9:26:27)

Is there no rtl support in EW (Hebrew, Arabic)? Looked everywhere for info on localization, Hebrew, rtl - nada!

Any ideas? Ditch EW and go for Orca?



jaybee -> RE: No right to left support? (4/20/2007 10:48:43)

Welcome to Outfront.

You have to declare the page as left to right in the in the code.

Change your <html> to:

<html dir="rtl" lang ="he" >

You also need to make the encoding UTF-8



avinatbezeqint -> RE: No right to left support? (4/20/2007 11:15:52)

And that's all that is needed to develop in Hebrew? No catches?-)



Tailslide -> RE: No right to left support? (4/20/2007 11:38:02)

You need to be careful with your character encoding - some will work better than others depending on how you're coding the site i.e. there's a M$ proprietory one, I think it's 1255 but could be wrong - but I'd stick with UTF-8 personally like this: 

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">


More on the subject: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html



jaybee -> RE: No right to left support? (4/20/2007 11:52:24)

quote:

And that's all that is needed to develop in Hebrew? No catches?-)


I pulled a Hebrew right to left page in to EW, used UTF-8 and the <html> line I gave you and there it was, happily tying the wrong way round. Worked for me. Didn't understand a word of it.

If UTF-8 doesn't have the desired effect for the characters try UTF-16.



avinatbezeqint -> RE: No right to left support? (4/20/2007 16:36:21)

OK, thank you all, I'll give it a try.

However, it sound suspiciously too easy!

For example, with win forms, you have to change the "language" attributes with contorls, and then there'd be the 'inherit' stuff, and hebrew forms would mirror english ones.

Then with ASP.Net you'd have a tree of files, sele ctable by the thread's UI culture, and you'd have to set that based on the user's language preferences in the browser or something.

And there's that issue with resources and resource manager and whatever.

Can't be that simple ..

Avi



jaybee -> RE: No right to left support? (4/20/2007 17:53:26)

Who mentioned ASP and forms. all I was concentrating on was typing back to front. [:D]



avinatbezeqint -> RE: No right to left support? (4/21/2007 1:11:43)

Why, were you typing in English ;-)



Tailslide -> RE: No right to left support? (4/21/2007 3:26:01)

She normally writes English back to front - it's all part of her elaborate plan to confuse people. [:D]



avinatbezeqint -> RE: No right to left support? (4/21/2007 5:39:26)

?yhw gnisufnoc
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jaybee -> RE: No right to left support? (4/21/2007 5:47:09)

It's to confuse the spammers. Type it all back to front then use CSS Backwards to turn it all the right way round. Who says web devs are thick. [:D]



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