I have the same problem I tried everything but I couldn't solve the text broken at the end of the of the line
If anybody know how to solve this problem please let me know it's know years I'm having this prb Thanks On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Mike Grunwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > @Cedric > > I did see that. The problem with that is it's not XML. When I try to wrap > any of the translations in tags, the words shift order. It has to have > something to do with mixing Eastern and Western characters. I think it's > tied to the alignment. Since Arabic is right justified, it displays properly > when those are the only characters in the document. As soon as you introduce > a Western character, it must automatically switch the justification and by > doing so it flips the order of the Eastern words. > > > > On Dec 4, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Cedric Muller wrote: > > :( >> >> Did you see this post ? >> <http://joeabiraad.com/design/how-to-write-arabic-in-flash-8/36> >> >> hth, >> Cedric >> >> @Cedric >>> >>> It is weird and crazy.I know it's happening, so there's no need to show >>> the client. >>> >>> PS I haven't taken hallucinogens in quite sometime so I'm ruling out a >>> Flashback. Other people see it too. >>> >>> >>> Mike Grunwald >>> >>> McDill Design >>> 626 N Water St >>> Milwaukee, WI 53202 >>> 414.277.8111 >>> mcdilldesign.com >>> >>> On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Cedric Muller wrote: >>> >>> OT but could you open the XLS and take a snapshot of the text, and then >>>> send to your client, to check if it is correct. >>>> Then, if ok, could you copy / paste this text into another document >>>> (like word, txt, xml) and take snapshots in order to send them to your >>>> client ? >>>> >>>> I find 'the order of words rearranged' very weird, almost crazy. >>>> >>>> hth, >>>> Cedric >>>> >>>> Not a stupid question @Ian. >>>>> >>>>> It's not a matter of each individual character reversing the order. If >>>>> it were I could convert the string to an array and reorder it ah la: >>>>> >>>>> var myCharity_L2R:String = myXML.ARB.CHARITY; >>>>> var myCharity_R2L:String = myCharity_L2R.split("").reverse().join(""); >>>>> >>>>> The actual problem is it's taking the order of words and rearranging >>>>> them. And to answer you, it's not displaying properly in the SWF. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Ian Thomas wrote: >>>>> >>>>> This is probably a stupid question - but does it matter? >>>>>> >>>>>> By which I mean - it may flip RTL text so that it's LTR in the XML >>>>>> file, but when it actually gets to the screen, is it still flipped? >>>>>> Can you control the flipping in the display on the screen, rather than >>>>>> worrying about it in the XML file? >>>>>> >>>>>> Ian >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Mike Grunwald >>>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> OK... I think I've reached the end of the internet as well as the end >>>>>>> of my >>>>>>> patients. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've been trying to figure out a way to take translations that I've >>>>>>> received >>>>>>> in an Excel spreadsheet and paste them into an XML document. The XML >>>>>>> is >>>>>>> UTF-8 and it's plain text (of course). No matter what editor (Flex >>>>>>> Builder >>>>>>> 3, Dreamweaver, Text Edit, WordPad, NotePad, Word, etc.) or OS (OSX >>>>>>> 10.4, >>>>>>> Windows XP) or combination of the two, it seems that when I try to >>>>>>> combine >>>>>>> the eastern translation with western markup (XML tags, or even >>>>>>> western >>>>>>> characters for that matter), as soon as I drop in a single character, >>>>>>> if >>>>>>> flips the orientation of the translated Arabic text?!? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Everything that I find on the internet leads me hopeful down a path >>>>>>> of >>>>>>> ultimate disappointment. I know that I'm not the only one with this >>>>>>> problem >>>>>>> and I'm sure one of you has experienced this. Please let me in on you >>>>>>> secrets. I beg you... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Let me just clarify—My problem is not font related (I've got that all >>>>>>> sorted >>>>>>> out), and for the most part it's not really Flash related (except for >>>>>>> the >>>>>>> fact that I'm using this XML content for dynamic text fields). this >>>>>>> list is >>>>>>> probably not the proper place for this question, but I'm out of >>>>>>> options and >>>>>>> I thinking that I'm going to have to scrap some of the digging I've >>>>>>> done in >>>>>>> relation to getting text to display properly and make alterations to >>>>>>> my >>>>>>> application to load images instead of live type. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Somebody... Anybody.... 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