It certainly would be great, but such support is really non-trivial to properly implement.
Claiming "support" of Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, requires full support for context alternates, special ligatures, various vowel and vocalization marks, mixed left-to-right and right-to-left text handling based on language and character set, as well as spelling and hyphenation support. Don't count on this support anytime in the near to midterm future. - Dov > -----Original Message----- > From: ric [mailto:ric at ssds.com.sg] > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 6:21 PM > To: Dov Isaacs; Flato, Gillian; Ann Zdunczyk; Graeme R Forbes; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: right to left languages > > It would be great if the future FM versions support the Arabic / Persian > languages. > Presently, we are forcing the FM to create Arabic language by using a > Mirrored method, together with customised fonts. > It's difficult but still workable as compared to Indesign ME. :) > > - Ric > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dov Isaacs" <isaacs at adobe.com> > To: "Flato, Gillian" <gflato at nanometrics.com>; "Ann Zdunczyk" > <azdunczyk at triad.rr.com>; "Graeme R Forbes" <Graeme.Forbes at Colorado.EDU>; > <framers at lists.frameusers.com> > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 7:00 AM > Subject: RE: right to left languages > > > FrameMaker 8 does NOT support right-to-left languages (Arabic, > Farsi, Hebrew) other than display and entry of their Unicode > characters. This is not true "support." > > And Hebrew is not a "Cyrillic language." :-) > > - Dov > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: framers-bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers- > > bounces+isaacs=adobe.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Flato, > Gillian > > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:49 PM > > To: Ann Zdunczyk; Graeme R Forbes; framers at lists.frameusers.com > > Subject: RE: right to left languages > > > > We just saw a presentation today by Adobe introducing Frame 8. It will > > have support for Unicode and Cyrillic languages like Greek, Hebrew and > > Russian. > > > > > > -Gillian > _______________________________________________