arabic script

[Monte Goulding]

>>> Hmm... I'm just guessing but I think I'd need a work around to  
>>> handle the fact that right to left scripts aren't supported. At  
>>> least that's what it says in the docs. As I don't know Arabic I  
>>> thought asking here might help but perhaps no-one has bumped into  
>>> this limitation yet?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Monte
>
> I maintain & further develop a training system I built for a client  
> starting in 2003. It allows Arabic (or any RTL language) to be  
> pasted into fields but not typed in. The reason for no typing is no  
> engine support for RTL typing.

OK, no typing could be a blocker for us. Did you try setting selecting  
before the first char to move the cursor to the left as the user was  
typing?
>
>
> During the paste process my code reverses the character order, gets  
> the html entity code of each char, and sets the htmlText of the  
> target field to the reversed string of entities. Also there is some  
> unicode business thrown in along the way, but I don't remember those  
> details at the moment.

So how do you handle text wrapping or do you avoid it?
>
>
> If there is a simpler way to do this, I would love to hear about it.

Me too.