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john-but
United Kingdom
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Hi
I'm hoping someone in this forum can help with this problem as I've Googled it to death but still can't find a solution.
I have Hebrew text in word documents that I need to copy and paste into a content management system (cms) that uses Internet Explorer for it's interface. I can copy the Hebrew text into the textarea that the cms uses without a problem, however, I also need to enter English words into the Hebrew text but as soon as an English character is typed then the Hebrew text changes from right-to-left text to left-to-right text.
For example, this line:-
ה- שואבת השראתה מערכי התרבות היפנית המוקירה את ערך
will be swapped to left to right when an English character is typed:-
ה- some English text שואבת השראתה מערכי התרבות היפנית המוקירה את ערך
Does anyone know how to insert English characters into Hebrew text without losing the right-to-left text?
MTIA
John
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Yossi Rozenman 
Israel
Local time: 05:47
 Member (2006)
English to Hebrew
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| | You should set the text direction to Right-to-Left | Jul 12, 2010 |
Try clicking right Ctrl+Shit to set the writing direction to right-to-left. If it does not work, than your system does not have a full right-to-left support.
In any case, in order for the text to be displayed proplerly in the final HTML page, you should set the paragraph direction, if it is only a paragraph in Hebrew, or the page direction, if the whole page is in Hebrew, to right-to-left direction.
In order to do that, dir="rtl" attribute should be added to the paragraph or the HTML tag.
HTH
Yossi
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Robert Tucker
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:47
German to English
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john-but
United Kingdom
TOPIC STARTER | | Many thanks for the replies! | Jul 13, 2010 |
Yossi Rozenman wrote:
Try clicking right Ctrl+Shit to set the writing direction to right-to-left. If it does not work, than your system does not have a full right-to-left support.
In any case, in order for the text to be displayed proplerly in the final HTML page, you should set the paragraph direction, if it is only a paragraph in Hebrew, or the page direction, if the whole page is in Hebrew, to right-to-left direction.
In order to do that, dir="rtl" attribute should be added to the paragraph or the HTML tag.
HTH
Yossi
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Many thanks Yossi! I Googled forever and didn't find Right ctrl + shift! It solved half of my problem. I can now enter the Hebrew and English and it formats correctly. However, when I save and open it again the right-to-left formatting is lost again.
I know this may be something to do with the CMS that it's being saved into but if you can think of absolutely anything that I can try then it'd be appreciated!
Robert, I've tried entering unicode RTL characters (alt+0254) in the copy and the character appears but doesn't seem to do anything?
Thanks again
John
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Yossi Rozenman
Israel
Local time: 05:47
Member (2006)
English to Hebrew
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| | CMS should have RTL support | Jul 13, 2010 |
Otherwise, there's no way to make the text stay RTL.
But, what is really important is if the final text is displayed properly in RTL.
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Madeleine MacRae Klintebo
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:47
Swedish to English
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| | Which CMS are you using? | Jul 13, 2010 |
Off-the-shelf or proprietary solution?
In the latter case, just have a chat with the company's IT developers.
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Robert Tucker
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:47
German to English
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| john-but wrote:I've tried entering unicode RTL characters (alt+0254) in the copy and the character appears but doesn't seem to do anything? |
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I think Alt+0254 gives a þ which apparently is a letter in the Old English, Old Norse, and Icelandic alphabets according to Wikipedia.
Inserting control characters can be tricky on Windows – you may even want to install software to input characters by Unicode number.
Does your CMS use TinyMCE? If so, it looks as if you need "Extended" functionality enabled.
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john-but
United Kingdom
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jlandau3
Israel
New user
| | Not a reply rather a plea for help | May 22 |
I'm trying to copy & paste from hebrew wikipedia into a word document & the words are getting all jumbled out of order & sumetimes even the letters are out of order. Any ideas how I can copy the information & keep it in correct order?
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Yossi Rozenman
Israel
Local time: 05:47
Member (2006)
English to Hebrew
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| | Try using paste special | May 23 |
jlandau3 wrote:
I'm trying to copy & paste from hebrew wikipedia into a word document & the words are getting all jumbled out of order & sumetimes even the letters are out of order. Any ideas how I can copy the information & keep it in correct order? |
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In Word, select Edit -> Paste Special -> Unformatted text.
HTH
Yossi
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