Thanks.

I tried the following in an fo file:

<fo:block font-weight="bold" space-before.optimum="5pt">
   <fo:bidi-override
direction="rtl">&#1580;&#1583;&#1608;&#1604;</fo:bidi-override> text
</fo:block>

I tried this and I get this error
 property - "direction" is not implemented yet.
 element "fo:bidi-override" is not yet implemented.

I am using FOP 0.20.1

Regards

Tanzila

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of W. Eliot
Kimber
Sent: 25 January 2002 12:13
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Arabic characters and FOP


Tanzila Mohammad wrote:
> If you open this XML code in internet explorer it gives you a correctly
> displayed Arabic word.
> <value xml:lang="AR">&#1580;&#1583;&#1608;&#1604;</value>
>
> If I insert the exact Arabic code in my XML and translate the XML into PDF
> using FOP, the pdf displays the Arabic characters back to front.
>
> If I then actually reverse the characters:
> i.e. <value xml:lang="AR">&#1604;&#1608;&#1583;&#1580;</value>
>
> And re-run the process, although now in the right order the joins between
> the characters are lost.

Unicode includes the default writing mode for each character. Thus,
Arabic is automatically presented right-to-left. If you want it
presented left-to-right, you need to use the bidi-overide attriute of
fo:inline. This also allows you to embed left-to-rigth text into
right-to-left data (e.g., English words embedded in an Arabic stream).

Cheers,

Eliot
ISOGEN International, LLC

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