Re: Arabic input via WebObjects?
Re: Arabic input via WebObjects?
- Subject: Re: Arabic input via WebObjects?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:52:02 +0200
Hello Steven,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven McDowall" <email@hidden>
To: <email@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 3:50 PM
Subject: Arabic input via WebObjects?
> Just wondering if any of the guru's out there have ever created a web
> based application that allows mixed-language (on the fly) input,
> especially two of the languages being Hebrew and Arabic.
ok!
>
> Basically, we need to create input fields that the user can enter
> either:
>
> English
> French
> German
> Hebrew
> Arabic
You mean on the same page he can use 5 diffrent languages? and what language
do you presnet your site?
however,..
>
> Now, the odd thing, for those who don't know it -- is that Hebrew and
> Arabic are both Right-to-Left (RTL) languages, meaning that the input
> text fields should start with the cursor to the right most and then
> proceed left (keeping the text right justified).
>
> I have never seen this in a web application before. Just my lack of
> knowing probably.
>
> The other interesting thing is that on a given field, it is unknown
> ahead of time if the input will be LTR (ISO-LATIN) or RTL (Hebrew/
> Arabic), so the user needs a way to "switch" input modes "on the fly".
He has this Switching modus. it depends on the keyborad and OS user uses.
This is not the server problem. WebObjects on the client site is only HTML
so no diffrences between it and php for example.
>
> The backend DB w/ be UTF-8, so should have no problem on storing, but
> also wondering how things like "searches" would work.
UTF-8 is not enugh for db. at least not for arabic (i tested it under
ms-sql). use Unicode.
>
> Any ideas, comments, places to look would be welcome.
Your problem is deffnitely not on the client site. when user writes arabic
this will work fine. depends on the browser as i hint a little before. some
browsers do not do the job properly. However, its not ur problem.
on the db just use unicode (nVarChar) for examples insteed of (VarChar) ,
etc...
Searching in the DB? forget it. There is no problem :)
You will face problems in java (just an idea). Inform me about the results
(just curious ;) ).
peaSe,
Sako.
>
> Thanks!
>
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