Hi all



I've been asked by the boss to look into what is involved in taking an 

existing ASP web development and converting it to Arabic.



He has said that I will have access to someone who speaks fluently in both 

languages so at least I don't need to learn that first!



Our site uses the backend database currently to translate to a number of 

European languages like French and German but as I understand it Arabic is 

right to left which is a whole new kettle of fish.



Could anyone point me in the direction of any resources that deal with 

this. Hints/tips/pitfalls etc.





Regards

Graham

Hi !



You'll need to consider two things.

1. Database

2. HTML pages.



Like you already said Arabic is written right to left so you'll have to

change your

html pages to fit into this. As far as I know align=right wouldn't be

enough.

I remember when I wrote some site in Hebrew we used also option DIR=RTL.

Besides that I think that's all.



Database is another issue that you have to keep in your mind in case you'll

need to store

some Arabic characters in there.

If this DB server will hold English/Arabic data only then it shouldn't be a

problem

you just will need to install or change some setting on your DB but if

you'll need to hold

few different languages on this DB you should use UNICODE but I actually

didn't work with it

yet so you'll have to find out the right way for you.



Hope it helps a little.



Oleg



-----Original Message-----

From: gbrown@c... [mailto:gbrown@c...]

Sent: January 24, 2002 2:12 PM

To: ASP Web HowTo

Subject: [asp_web_howto] Converting an existing english website to

Arabic





Hi all



I've been asked by the boss to look into what is involved in taking an

existing ASP web development and converting it to Arabic.



He has said that I will have access to someone who speaks fluently in both

languages so at least I don't need to learn that first!



Our site uses the backend database currently to translate to a number of

European languages like French and German but as I understand it Arabic is

right to left which is a whole new kettle of fish.



Could anyone point me in the direction of any resources that deal with

this. Hints/tips/pitfalls etc.





Regards

Graham










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