Forums / Install & configuration / How to display Arabic content
Mazin Mustafa
Monday 28 June 2004 1:04:23 pm
I am using eZ publish 3.4.0. It is setup for english-usa. I'm simply looking for the best way to publish articles that are in both English and Arabic.I tried adding a custom translation with ara-IQ, create the English article, tranlated it to the custom local, but the display is row character code خ..etc.
Please advise.
Wednesday 30 June 2004 8:20:14 am
Folks, I'm not being lazy by asking this question. I had already done a full a search of the forums and doc's prior to writing this post. I see the hints to using UTF-8 and changing databases and all that. My question is do I really have to do all that just for article content? The menus, links, everything can remain in Latin. In HTML, displaying Arabic is just a matter of inputing the text in unicode. How can this be made to work with eZ publish if it is possible.
Paul Forsyth
Wednesday 30 June 2004 8:27:11 am
UTF-8 should do it. The primary requirement is that you db must be able to handle utf-8, not all of them can. If you are using mysql you need a 4.1.X series version. Once you have that its relatively simple to set up eZ publish for this, as described in:
http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/configuration/configuration/language_and_charset/unicode_with_ez_publish
paul
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Thursday 01 July 2004 1:01:37 pm
I followed the instructions and it now works. Thank you very much.