Hebrew language cut & paste into VFE

We are bringing up an Isreali site into TS 552. However we have noticed strange behavior
when trying to cut & paste Hebrew content into the visual editor.

BTW, Hebrew is read right to left, not left to right.

When you cut a line like this:

**** XXXX **** TeamSite XXXX ****

(the **** reference hebrew, and an English name)

the cut and paste gets all messed up, the English is moved, if you add numbers it is worse.

Not knowing Hebrew I have no clue what is happening.

Anyone see the before ?

Andy

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Migrateduser

Did you check Ektron's support site for this issue? My glance makes me think pasting of Hebrew is not supported (rekey is supported).

Migrateduser

If I didn't know you were serious I'd think this was the funniest post of all time. Good friggin' luck, my friend.

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nipper

from John:
>Did you check Ektron's support site for this issue? My glance makes me think pasting of Hebrew is not supported (rekey is supported)

did not see anything like this, but Hebrew info is sparse.

& yes Smitty I am very serious. I will be seriously drunk later tonight & can laugh about it then.
Think my wife will find that funny ? Doubtful,

Andy

Migrateduser

http://www.ektron.com/ewebeditpro-html-editor.aspx?id=1459&terms=hebrew

I know it seems like paste is equivalent to "enter" but who knows how Windows is storing the data internally.

Q: When you say eWebEditPro has international language support, what do you mean?

A: International language support consists of the following components:
Content
Users can enter content in any language supported by the browser
Characters can be stored in any of the following formats
UTF-8
character reference
double byte binary Unicode
any other encoding, such as SO-8859, Windows-125x, EUC, Shift-JIS
eWebEditPro can convert Unicode characters to their character reference
The editor's language can be switched by changing the configuration data or via JavaScript
If the user's PC has Microsoft Word, the content can be spell checked against any foreign dictionary provided with Word
Menus, Toolbars, Dialogs
Translated menus, toolbars, and dialogs are provided for 14 languages. You can translate these items into any other language by editing a single file. Also, right-to-left editing is supported for Arabic and Hebrew languages. Finally, you can easily change any button image to a more culturally relevant one.

Gilad

When using Unicode with Hebrew, English and Hebrew words might get mixed up.
In web applications configuring pages to be RTL (right to left) instead of LTR enables using UNICODE.

You can try using hebrew character sets such as ISO-8859-8 or WIN1255.
Three different interpretations are possible with ISO: visual order, explicit logical order,
and implicit logical order. "ISO-8859-8" shall be used for text coded in visual order,
"ISO-8859-8-E" shall be used for text coded in explicit order, and "ISO-8859-8-I"
for text coded in implicit order

DougD

Some of the problems may occur because the content is pasted into a left-to-right (LTR) section rather than a right-to-left (RTL) section.
If you will be using bi-directional languages (e.g., Hebrew, Arabic) frequently, I recommend adding the directional toolbar to your editor (see details below).
The buttons on the toolbar allow the author to set the direction of a selection, paragraph, etc.

Add the following to visualformatconfig.xml in the <interface> section.

<menu name="dirbar" newRow="false" showButtonsCaptions="false" wrap="false" visible="true">
<caption localeRef="mnuDir" />
<button command="cmdltrblk" />
<button command="cmdrtlblk" />
<button command="cmdltredit" />
<button command="cmdrtledit" />
</menu>

nipper

Thanks for the code snippet.

Should there be any more ?

I put this in & have the new menu, but there are no buttons, so I suspect I need to define
the buttons.

I will RTFM.

TIA

Andy