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Subject: Re: [xsl] XSL-FO Processor for Arabic Text
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:20:06 -0400

The English/Arabic example I use in my classroom works with Antenna House but not with others I've tried. And it works not only with standalone strings but the example illustrates the strong/weak Unicode direction interaction and the use of <bidi-override>.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken

At 2009-06-19 01:58 +0400, Paul Spencer wrote:
Does anyone know of a processor for converting XML and XSL to PDF that
supports mixed English and Arabic text? In my current application, the
Arabic text is always on its own within a table cell, so there is never
mixed directionality within a block. FOP just gives me "#" symbols for any
Arabic characters. The developers of the tool I usually use (which currently
prints the characters, but left to right instead of right to left) have
promised a fix, but I need a fallback option.

Hebrew has the same right-to-left issue, so if a tool works with Hebrew, it
should work with Arabic.


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