RoboHelp 7 Support of Hebrew and Arabic

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November 26, 2007
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I am trying to figure out if RH7 supports Hebrew and Arabic languages? Is this something included in the new Unicode/double-byte support? Thanks!

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Peter Grainge

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johndaigle

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It seems the answer was on the Adobe Tech Comm blog all the time

At the present time only left to right, top to bottom languages are supported.
You'll find more here
http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2007/11/adobe_robohelp_7_unicode_enabl.html

I'd suggest adding your request for Hebrew and Arabic to the
Adobe Wish List Form

Thanx
John

John DaigleAdobe Certified RoboHelp and Captivate InstructorNewport, Oregon

MortenMueller

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Last post was from November 2007, now we´re in August 2009. Has anything happened re. RH support of Arabic and right-to-left languages in the meantime? We use RH7, has anybody discovered any RH7 workarounds for handling Arabic? Is RH8 any better at handling Arabic? Any news re. RH handling of Arabic at all?

Lack of RH support for Arabic is a massive problem for us: our Arabic translators want to use RHX3 (apparently the last RH version with Arabic support) when localizaing our RH projects, but many of the features we use RH7 (such as variables, snippets, etc.) aren't supported by RH X3.

Millions and millions of people use Arabic, and they require documentation too. How come such an important language apparently keeps being neglected in RH?

RoboColum_n_

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It only supports the following languages...

Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Canadian French, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Swiss German, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

J

jdcyclone1Author

Inspiring

I found this quote on Peter's Web site:
"the reference to 35 languages just refers to the languages we included out-of-the-box, with full support for spell-checking, thesaurus and hyphenation, but beyond that, you can insert any character supported by the Unicode standard and publish it successfully to any format that RoboHelp supports."

So am I correct in saying that Arabic and Hebrew ARE supported because they are supported by the Unicode standard, they just aren't fully supported by RoboHelp (thesaurus, spelling, etc.)?

johndaigle

Legend

Welcome, jdcyclone
While it has support for 35 languages and Unicode, RH 7 does not support right-to-left languages at this time.
For the list you can download this Reviewer's Guide.
Adobe RoboHelp 7 Reviewer's Guide

Thanx,
john

John DaigleAdobe Certified RoboHelp and Captivate InstructorNewport, Oregon

Peter Grainge

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