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Index and Search do not working in Hebrew RH8 project

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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

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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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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

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In RH7, those "Help UI" texts, like the ones in the search box, are in a file called 'RoboHHRE.lng'. There's one in the Help project root folder and one in a sub-folder of the '!Language!' folder. As RH does not really support Hebrew, I put mine in the 'en-UK' folder and call the help "English UK" in the Project Settings.

Your .hhk file looks very different from what I have in RH7... but it does look like Hebrew

Sorry, I am out of ideas right now, on how to make it work. I don't have any RH8 projects left from the time I tried it to see if we need to upgrade

Your Index and Search panes still seem to be aligned on the left. I suppose you must have seen this thread:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/459071?tstart=0

or the steps for RH7, on Peter Grainge's site, that I put together from Willam's instructions in that thread. Hopefully it is possible to find the needed changes for RH8 based on those.

I found a couple of my RH8 test projects after all...

... and the Index in Hebrew seems to work fine in it. So it can be done.

'RoboHHRE.lng' files are there, just like in RH7

Are you getting any content into the help output's 'whidata1.htm' files (different numbers, depending on how long your index is)?

The beginning of my RH8 Hebrew test file looks like this:

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<head>

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In the output, the last files modified are whskin_tbars.htm, whiform.htm and whfform.htm. Looks like I did not yet get the ToC indents fixed in that test.

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