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Dzatkovsky
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September 15, 2010
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Index and Search do not working in Hebrew RH8 project

  • September 15, 2010
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While localizing

English Robohelp 8 project into Hebrew (WebHelp as output), we encountered some crucial issues: Despite the fact that our hhk and hhc files were translated only Table of contents appear in Hebrew in the generated Help, index pane appears empty and search pane shows gibrish. When I use original English hhk file then index showing mixed English and Hebrew entries, no any luck with search. We used many times discussed RTL workaround for RH7. It seems that it does not fully fit for RH8, so my panes are not aligned properly and so on, but these issues we can put aside.Search and Index seem to be more important. Any ideas?

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Correct answer Willam van Weelden

Thank you-it really helped me!

One more little thing to go-Can you tell me where I suppose to find localizable strings for 2 tiny words:

In my search results Title and Rank appear untranslated. It doesn't matter much but we are all kind of perfectionists


Hi,

Probably something in the language file, but I'm not big on that. In the output, open whfhost.js. The first fourteen lines contain text for the search option.

Greet,

Willam

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perttime
Inspiring
September 15, 2010

I am still on RH7, so things might not be quite identical...

The first thing I'd suspect is character encodings: are your Hebrew source .htm, .hhc and .hhk files in UTF-8 encoding or something else?

Even if the meta tags in HTML say the file is UTF-8, it might not be true. When I open an English resource HTML from a RH7 project in Notepad, and "Save As", it shows that the file is in an ANSI encoding, regardless of the tags. It has happened that a translation agency returned translations in ANSI when I sent them files straight from RoboHelp, causing all sorts of weirdness in the characters.

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DzatkovskyAuthor
Participating Frequently
September 15, 2010

Sure my guess is RH8 behaves a little different. I had some experience wi

th RH7 and all was smoth.

Regarding the encording-I run partial check and my  files are utf-8 encorded.

Any other ideas? BTW meanwhile i succeded to move pane of TOc to the right)))

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perttime
Inspiring
September 15, 2010

What about your settings for generating (start generating from the File menu)?

There's options for DHTML,  Java Applet, and Pure HTML. For me, Pure HTML always produces a mess in Index and Search.

Can you post a screenshot of what your "mess" looks like?

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EDIT:

How are the first lines in your .hhc and .hhk files?

Mine are identical with the English: no RTL markings or anything. Does the text in .hhc and .hhk files look like Hebrew?

Does your computer have language support for Hebrew?

I am not sure if it matters, or if the difference comes when Generating or when viewing the help. When doing HTML Help, I needed to change my language settings to get many languages right, but this might not be an issue with WebHelp and UTF-8.

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