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24-May-08 9:16

Hello Everybody

I'm developing an Arabic website but the problem is that on my machine everthing is Arabic but when i upload the project to the server everthing became unreadable and in strange code.

I have master page file and most pages use it . In this master page file i added first

but the charecterset changes everything to ?s

then i change it to

this charecterset solved some parts of the paged that are allready inherted from the master page file
i mean outside the ContentPlaceHolder.

i tried in web.config to add

<globalization requestencoding="utf-8" responseencoding="utf-8">

but this one did nothing with the Encoding.

Now what should i do ?

Thanks.

gnjunge25-May-08 1:19

gnjunge

25-May-08 1:19

Make sure you save your file in VS also as UTF 8 or Windows 1256. (File-> Advanced Save Properties)

Aldorado25-May-08 2:03

25-May-08 2:03

Thank you for your answer but unfortunatelly i changed the setting to utf-8 but the same problems the letters are unreadble Frown | :(

Mogaambo25-May-08 4:07

25-May-08 4:07

Hi aldorado,

Can u tell me which font you are using for arabic

regards

Mogamboo

Aldorado25-May-08 4:16

25-May-08 4:16

Hello Mogamboo

Thanks for replying ..

I figured out what should i do

1) in master page file i added in the meta <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

2) in web.config i added <globalization requestencoding="utf-8" responseencoding="utf-8">

3) in each page that use the master page file i nedded to add in <%Page %> Culture="ar-QA" ResponseEncoding ="utf-8" UICulture="ar-QA"

and now i can read language correctly but i still have one problem

when i retrieve data from sql server it shows in ?s .

and by the way i'm using Tahoma font.

Thanks

gnjunge25-May-08 11:03

gnjunge

25-May-08 11:03

the datatype in sql server is nvarchar or ntext?

Aldorado25-May-08 11:50

25-May-08 11:50

it's nvarchar ?

Mogaambo25-May-08 20:12

25-May-08 20:12

How you are inserting in database can u show me the query.

Aldorado26-May-08 0:20

26-May-08 0:20

Thank you Mogaambo i've solved it .

For database i needed to put 'N' before the string so i tell the server that the text is in Arabic

eg:
SqlCommand = new SqlCommand();
command.Connection = con ; // I've created it early.
command.CommandString = "insert into tbl values(" + id + ",N'" + nam + "')";

and it's working very well .

Thank you

Mogaambo26-May-08 1:04

26-May-08 1:04

i am also developing website in arabic, nut can u tell me, which font u have used so that text should be displayed in arabic.

Aldorado26-May-08 1:06

26-May-08 1:06

Hello Mogaambo

I'm using Tahoma font .

Mogaambo26-May-08 1:36

26-May-08 1:36

So with tahoma font can we display arabic characters, i donot know any arabic, i use google translator to translate english to arabic

that means user doesn't need to install any other font to view the page only their language settings in the browser is set to the arabic.

Aldorado26-May-08 1:38

26-May-08 1:38

Yes with Tahoma font You can Display Arabic Fonts.

Also with Times New Roman , Verdana , Arial , san serif ...

but i prefer Tahoma because in my opinio it's more elegant.

Thanks

Mogaambo26-May-08 1:45

26-May-08 1:45

can u give me ur website link.

Thanx

Aldorado26-May-08 1:49