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how to design a web page in arabic?!

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 3:33 pm
by vin_akleh
hi, i was asked to design a web page in arabic, and i dont have any idea how to do so, i use wampserver
any ideas??!!

Re: how to design a web page in arabic?!

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 3:48 pm
by AbraCadaver
I would assume that it is the same as in English for the most part, except it is right-to-left and of course you must understand Arabic.

Re: how to design a web page in arabic?!

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:08 pm
by vin_akleh
what i meant is how will the HTML understand the Arabic language
whenever i type in Arabic using notepad++ it shows like this
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Re: how to design a web page in arabic?!

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 4:33 pm
by AbraCadaver
I don't know about notepad. Is your computer setup to display Arabic correctly (this I know nothing about)? I think as long as your web pages are UTF8 and use right-to-left they should work fine, but we'll see:

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<html dir="rtl">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

Re: how to design a web page in arabic?!

Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 2:08 am
by MichaelSK
You have to follow the rules for HTML, PHP and whatever you use as far as reserved words and syntax.

For example, to set a title in HTML it must use the letters
<title> example text </title>
However, you can replace the contents with whatever you want as long as it obeys the rules.

Take a look at a wiki page in Arabic http://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9 ... 9%8A%D8%AB