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

[Kemp Johnathan]

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> 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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