Arabic Text in DW?

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October 16, 2024
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Hi everybody, I was wondering if anybody on here was familiar with writing in Arabic in DW? I’m having some weird results with Arabic text in DW. Although it displays correctly in DW when you put the file into a browser one paragraph of text has certain words moved, while another paragraph doesn’t!, and punctuation at the end of a line of text has moved to the start of the line but punctuation in the middle of a line as stayed in it’s correct place!

I will upload the exact details of the errors later. Thanks for your help!

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Correct answer Nancy OShea

Thanks Nancy. I’ll definitely install that if I need to. However, the <html code for the whole page with <p code for any bits of English appears to do the job perfectly well so far.

However, I was wondering if the Middle Eastern and North African version will help the issue of applying bold to the Arabic text? If I don’t figure it out soon I’ll make a new thread for this issue, but when you have right to left text inside a dir="rtl" tag you can’t apply bold to it! I don’t know if this is any different in the Middle Eastern and North African version. I’ll investigate! Thanks again!

1) I don't have much need for RTL text in my day-to-day work.

2) I work directly with code, It's faster and more precise than clumsy panels.

If you work with HTML in Code View, you should be able to add <strong> tags to your text, regardless if it's RTL or LTR.

<p>This is normal text. <strong>This is bold.</strong> This is normal. </p>

This is normal text. This is bold. This is normal.

Test in actual browsers.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

1. Are you using RTL or Bidirectional text for Hebrew/Arabic?

2. Are you specifying text direction(s) in your CSS (stylesheet) or the Document's Properties?

See help article below for details:

https://helpx.adobe.com/in/dreamweaver/using/arabic-hebrew-text.html

Also validate code & fix reported errors.

Window > Results > Validation > Check document.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Gareth_WilliamsAuthor

Inspiring

Thanks Nancy & Ben, I’m not sure about all the answers yet. I do know that the page has UTF-8 encoding. Is there an encoding option just for RTL text? I don’t think I am specifying the text direction anywhere. I just pasted it in from a text file. All 3 cells with the offending punctuation say “Format” is “None” in the properties panel. I’ll investigate!

http://www.maximum-robot.co.uk/promotion/ARA1024.html

I know the attached video is not Arabic!

Gareth_WilliamsAuthor

Inspiring

I can’t find the Div properties or table properties panels. I also can’t find the CSS Rule definition dialog box. These settings might be worth experimenting with. Thanks again!

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Ben M

Community Expert

Can we see the page online? It could be an error in the code that is preventing the characters from rendering properly. Is there UTF-8 encoding? Are you specifying a lang="ar" for the copy? Without seeing the page we can only provide speculation like this.

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