[Xerte] Re: Right to Left Text (Wizards)

[Julian Tenney]

Don’t know. There’s no right to left support in the xerte flash stuff.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
Sent: 09 May 2011 12:28
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Right to Left Text (Wizards)

I have to say this is something I have not had to deal with before.

I did a quick test using Google Translate to translate "Press Enter to continue" into Hebrew

When I paste the translated text here it produces

הקש ENTER כדי להמשיך

Which is not how Google Translate displayed it, but it is also how it pastes into a Xerte xwd based form. Just attempting to move the insertion point left to right or right to left to select individual blocks of text is difficult, so I can't even cut and paste the text into the correct sequence as displayed in Google.

I have next to no experience of working in foreign language text, never-mind text that uses a completely different alphabet and writes in the opposite direction to English.

I am keen to add better support for foreign languages but this issue is beyond my current expertise. Any help would be appreciated.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 9 May 2011 10:27, Deborah Delin <admin at strivney.com<mailto:admin at strivney.com>> wrote:
I need to add some instructions and feedback in Hebrew, which is a right to left language, to my exercises.

The Hebrew text displays fine in the Title Bar but, when I add it to other places in a Wizard (in the Introductory Text Box, Feedback box or to the rlo as the label on the "Check Answers" button) in addition to not being aligned properly, which one would expect, the order of the words is jumbled.  Converting the Hebrew to Unicode doesn't change things.

The following css stylesheet (which does work when I put other instructions in it) has no effect:

title

{
direction:rtl;
text-align: right;

}

A workaround would be to create graphics for the text, but I wonder if there is a better solution?

Thanks in advance.

Deborah





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