Printing Arabic Text

[Davide]

Hello all,

I have a text file containing some Arabic strings in Ansi format (saved with Notepad)

When "Regional And Language Options (RLO)" are set for english, I see them as, for example:

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#define TXT_LANG     "ÚÑÈí"

but when RLO are set for Arabic I see the right glyps in Notepad.
So far, so good.

My problem is that when RLO=Arabic I can correctly put and see that text in Messageboxes, Windows, menus etc., BUT in print jobs:

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oPrn:Say(row,col,TXT_LANG)

It seems that the text in oPrn:say() does not follow the RLO rules (I always see it as in English: "ÚÑÈí")

Should I manually apply some kind of conversion ?
(The source file is already Ansi, but I've tried all the combinations I know: OEMtoAnsi() - AnsiToWide() and viceversa)

Thanks
Davide
FWH27 - xH 0.99.60 - Bcc

[hua]

Sorry for this necro post, but I'd like to share and record the knowledge of what have I found out while researching this issue just recently.

1. Most MS-Windows nowadays can be enabled to write Arabic characters. You could follow the instructions here or just simply google it.

In XP, this means playing around with Regional and Languages settings.



2. For printing, define a font that supports the arabic character set. Specifying the character set wanted is a must. e.g. instead of just

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oFnt := TFont():New( "Courier New", 0, -11,,,,, 700,,,,, 3, 2, 1, oPrn )

it must be specified as,

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#define ARABIC_CHARSET 178

oFnt := TFont():New( "Courier New", 0, -11,,,,, 700,,,, ARABIC_CHARSET, 3, 2, 1, oPrn )

Detailed description on CreateFont() can be found at MSDN.

p.s. Antonio, would it be possible for DEFINE FONT to be enhanced so we could pass the character set too? TIA

[nageswaragunupudi]

p.s. Antonio, would it be possible for DEFINE FONT to be enhanced so we could pass the character set too? TIA

Will be available from 11.07

[hua]

Thanks Rao.

[Davide]

Dear Rao,

#define ARABIC_CHARSET 178

oFnt := TFont():New( "Courier New", 0, -11,,,,, 700,,,, ARABIC_CHARSET, 3, 2, 1, oPrn )

thank you. Would this work even for 2-bytes languages, such as chinese for example ?

Tnx,
Davide