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1) Subject: Frontpage 25 July post
2) Subject: Frontpage 17 July post

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Date: 26 Jul 1999
From: greenman <greenman at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: post from 25 July

Hi again,

I'm running FrontPage 2000 over Arabic-English Win 95. I also have MS
Office 97 Professional Arabic-English installed on my computer.

I guess the "jaann" are at work: when I try to edit English-only text in
an English-only file using the html source code view in FrontPage, the
language changes to Arabic. I click back to English, type one letter, it
hops back to Arabic, one more letter, back to Arabic..., etc. The
WYSIWYG mode functions fine.

This only happens in existing files that I open and try to modify. It
doesn't happen with new files.

If Mr. Abbar or Mr. Nelson of Microsoft are lurking in cyberspace, I'd
sincerely appreciate some help "from the source". Of course, I'll
gratefully accept help from anyone.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards from Berlin,
Joe

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Date: 26 Jul 1999
From: greenman <greenman at zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: post from 17 July

Hi from Berlin,

I just had a very frustrating lesson in the fine art of upgrading
FrontPage 98 to FrontPage 2000 under Windows 95 Arabic-English that
might be of interest and useful, and _might_ also be relevant when
trying to install other M$ 2000 programs under Windows 95.

By the way, using Arabic-English Windows 95 wasn't the problem. I think
the story will be the same for anyone using "release a" of any version
of Windows 95.

To find out which release you have, click Start -> Settings -> Control
Panel -> System , and under "Microsoft Windows 95" you'll see a number
with an "a" or "b" at the end. I don't know if there are any other
possibilities, and I don't know if the problem pertains to "release b".

Anyway, before I was finally (after MANY tries) able to install the
upgrade, I had to download a file called "mdac_typ.exe" (free, but BIG -
6.4mb) from the M$ website.

To find out about this "trick" I had to phone M$ product support (in the
US, from Germany!), and was on the phone for 25 minutes :-(

The person who helped me - after suggesting some other things that
didn't work - knew that "release a" needed this file to be installed for
the upgrade, which clearly indicated that it's a technical issue known
to M$. I just wonder why they didn't write it somewhere on the box or in
the documentation that comes with the product. Oh well.

Just for the record, the person who helped me was very nice and polite.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Joe

P.S. Would people who can read codepage 1256 please take a look at
http://www.tu-berlin.de/zems/greenman/test.htm and tell me if you can
see ahalan wa-sahlan in Arabic?

If so it means you can now directly type Arabic on a web page using
FrontPage 2000 (and Arabic-English Windows), and it's coded correctly.

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