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Re: Arabic characters and FOP
- From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot at isogen dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 06:12:51 -0600
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Arabic characters and FOP
- Organization: ISOGEN
- References: <EBEKJPOMOCIKIIPPEBHBIEPBCKAA.tmohammad@entier-solutions.com>
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Tanzila Mohammad wrote:
> If you open this XML code in internet explorer it gives you a correctly
> displayed Arabic word.
> <value xml:lang="AR">جدول</value>
>
> If I insert the exact Arabic code in my XML and translate the XML into PDF
> using FOP, the pdf displays the Arabic characters back to front.
>
> If I then actually reverse the characters:
> i.e. <value xml:lang="AR">لودج</value>
>
> And re-run the process, although now in the right order the joins between
> the characters are lost.
Unicode includes the default writing mode for each character. Thus,
Arabic is automatically presented right-to-left. If you want it
presented left-to-right, you need to use the bidi-overide attriute of
fo:inline. This also allows you to embed left-to-rigth text into
right-to-left data (e.g., English words embedded in an Arabic stream).
Cheers,
Eliot
ISOGEN International, LLC
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