Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic HTML Package response

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Date:  03 Jul 2002
From:GnhBos at aol.com
Subject:Arabic HTML Package

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Date:  03 Jul 2002
From:waleed at talk21.com
Subject:Arabic HTML Package

Greetings to the desert in Tucson,

Dreamweaver is not particularly designed to support Arabic text, though
if you visit Macromedia's website you will find a patch that can make
you write script from right to left. As you might have guessed it it is
not the easiest to use nor does it produce the best results.

However, as is always the case with the Arab adverturers that have
always defied the odds there is a way around this that enables you to
enlist the capabilities of probably the best web design programme in the
market.

It is all at the top of the html code. If you write in the tag that the
HTML language is ARABIC then the programme has no problems with it. It
will publish the site on the net in Arabic but it won't display it in
its window in Arabic. What you will see is the usual extraterrestrial
code that nobody understands.

My suggestion is then not to write the Arabic text directly into
Dreamweaver but to cut and paste the text from any word processor. The
only thing to pay particular attention to when doing this is to make
sure that the operating system you are using is totally Arabic enabled,
otherwise the text that you cut from the word processor will get messed
up in the clipboad and will be pasted in Dreamweaver in a language that
no-one on this earth knows (except our alien friends).

Here are some (place before the 'head' tag) I sucessfully used:
1=<html  lang="AR">
2=<html>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1256">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="ar-sa">
3=
<html dir="rtl">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1256">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="ar-sa">

Best of luck,
Dr. Waleed Al-Amri

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