Why is it that the double quotes are being picked up as an error and I can't even use contractions words either because they are getting flagged as a issue? This has never been a issue before so why is it starting now?
It may be that your language is not recognizing the fancy quotes as allowable string delimiters and so the red underlining under the strings mat be fixed by changing those fancy quotes to normal quotes.
As of vscode v1.63: Just to know what those orange borders around the quote marks are, the fancy quotes are unexpected unicode characters. Those orange borders are warnings that there are unexpected or ambiguous unicode characters.
If you add those fancy quote characters to this setting:
Editor > Unicode Highlight: Allowed Characters
Just copy and paste your varioucs characters, like ” into the Add Item input.
Or you can disable this setting:
Editor > Unicode Highlight: Non Basic ASCII
and those warning borders will go away.
Unicode Highlighting of certain features was added to vscode recently.
How can I explicitly insert a horizontal spacing in Sphinx/reStructuredText?
The original problem is that I want to have a vocalization sign ُ to appear over space, but it is always displayed over the first letter of the next word.
Assuming that is "U+064F : ARABIC DAMMA", it appears to be a combination character, which means, if I read this correctly, that it cannot be displayed inline and separate from another character, unless you trick it out with a non-breaking space replacement. I grabbed an example from this answer.
this is |damma| |nbsp| damma
.. |damma| unicode:: U+064F .. ARABIC DAMMA
.. |nbsp| unicode:: U+00A0 .. NO-BREAK SPACE
I was able to display it in isolation using either a .. code-block:: directive or as its own paragraph.
.. code-block:: text
ُ
ُ
I want to add square bracket in org mode links' description, for example:
[[http://www.example.com][ Array[i] ]]
Is there a way to escape the brackets [ and ] ? Someone mentioned URL-encoding, but it's not compatible. Besides, looking for the URL-encoding of a character is time consuming.
I suspect that Org doesn't support this.
Org's link structure documentation makes no mention of escaping square brackets in link descriptions.
If you use org-insert-link (bound to C-c C-l by default) and try to use square brackets in your link text, Org converts them to braces:
[[http://www.example.com/][Array{i}]]
You should be able to use a Unicode character that looks like a square bracket inside your link text, but I haven't found a reasonable character to use. The closest I found were SQUARE IMAGE OF (⊏) and SQUARE ORIGINAL OF (⊐), which do indeed work:
[[http://www.example.com/][Array⊏i⊐]]
I found that using org-mode Macros to insert the ASCII codes for the square brackets works. I have posted the solution on Emacs Stackexchange.
A quotation mark placed by the Eclipse editor works just fine in an XML file. Yet if I edit the XML in Microsoft Word and type in a new quotation mark and then place the XML back into Eclipse I get errors. The two quotation marks look different: one looks normal, while the one from Word looks like an italic version. When I replace the Word Quotation marks with the Eclipse marks the errors go away. I'm sure its different ascii codes. What's going on here?
Word is inserting smart quotes (that is the technical term for them). The ones that word puts are opening and closing ones. Word is created as a document editor, not a code editor. It puts in corrections to make your documents look better, not preserve language syntax. If you still want to use word as a code editor, you can disable smart quotes (in Word 2007 it is under Options > Proofing > AutoCorrect Options... > AutoFormat Tab > "Straight quotes" with "smart quotes")
Microsoft Word automatically changes quotation marks into curly quotation marks (left and right) as you type. The curly ones are not the same ACSII character as the normal quotation mark.
In Word 2003, there's a setting in AutoCorrect options in the AutoFormat As You Type tab that says replace "straight quotes with smart quotes", so you can disable this feature. I don't know where to find this setting in later versions of Word.
I can write Arabic/Urdu/Persian on MS Word or Notepad just fine, but whenever I insert any English word or number, the sequence is just disturbed and seems like the all the words have been shuffled in the sentence.
Look at the example below:
یہ ایک مثال ہے اردو کی ...
Now I inserted an English word and it became:
یہ ایک مثال ہےword اردو کی ...
So you can see almost all of the words have been jumbled ... what is the solution for that ?
For example:
باللغة العربية “keyboard” انا أريد أن أعرف الكلمة
Finish typing the Arabic word and add a space after it (this space separates the embedded text from the Arabic text to its right).
Insert special character U+200F (to render the preceding space an Arabic character). The character name is "Right to Left Mark".
Insert special character U+202A (to begin the left-to-right embedding). The character name is "Left to Right Embedding".
Insert another space (to separate the embedded text from the Arabic text that will continue to its left).
Change the keyboard to e.g. English and type the left-to-right word.
Insert special character U+202C (to restore the bidrectional state to what it was before the left-to-right embedding). The Character name is "Pop directional formatting".
Change the keyboard back and continue writing in Arabic.
If you're working in Microsoft Office or Open Office, the "special characters" can be found under "insert" [Insert -> symbols -> other symbols -> special characters in MS 2013]. Scroll through until you find the character with the appropriate Unicode number, and if the Unicode number does not appear in your version of MS Word, select it by its name [as indicated above].
You can also add the character by writing it's unicode and then selecting it and pressing Alt+X - but that can be confusing because it needs constant change between Arabic and English.
All of the special characters involved in this little manoeuvre are invisible characters (their job is simply to change the direction of the text) so don't be surprised if it looks like you're not inserting anything.
Pay attention to select the RTL option from the ribbon when the majority of your paragraph is RTL and keep it selected [as shown in the picture in this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/46050171/8558867 ].
Before you start typing in Arabic/Persian make sure you have chosen "Right-to-Left-Direction" button. This button can be found on Paragraph tab just left side of AZ sorting button. Also select "Align Text Right" button which can be found in Paragraph tab left side of Justify button.
Start typing your language
Before putting an English word put an space then select left ALT + SHIFT and type your English word
Once finished your English words select right ALT + SHIFT and then put a space and keep typing your language again
Hope this helps
This is OK; they're not shuffled: you're seeing them in LTR rendering mode.
You just need to make them right-to-left. In Notepad or Word, press right Ctrl+Shift to make their direction right-to-left and it will be okay. (It's like having <p dir="rtl">...</p> in HTML).
The control characters LRE and RLE (0x202A and 0x202B) and also LRM and RLM (0x200E and 0x200F) need to be applied to the whole paragraph, i.e they should come at the beginning of the sequence. Some text display widgets of some platforms may discard these control characters though, particularly older (pre-2000) platforms or those who do not support Unicode bidirectional algorithm correctly. Newer OS'es and programs should be fine; try with Windows Notepad for example.
I personally recommend using the platform's means to make the text RTL, and avoid special control characters because they're invisible and may cause surprising results if they go out of control. So you'd better use Word's API to make the text RTL, or if your output is HTML put them in <div dir="rtl">...</div> tags. For plain text file, user has to manually press the Ctrl+Shift keys himself.
Edit: this was written as a clarification answer to the first answer here, I later edited the first answer and added the important notes I wrote here [the edit still needs approval though].
I was able to fix my text by following the steps in the first answer here.
In case anyone faces troubles while following the steps, let me clarify some things:
If you are entering an English word in an Arabic text, make sure that RTL option in the ribbon is selected [circled in red in the following figure]:
Keep it selected throughout the paragraph irrespective of the language you are using [as long as the majority of the paragraph is written in an RTL language like Arabic or Hebrew].
Where to find the special characters and how to insert them:
You can write the unicode of the character and then select it and press "Alt + X". However, this can be a bit confusing because of the need to change back and forth between English and Arabic to write the codes, so the best thing to do is enter them 'manually' by inserting their names.
You can do that by going to Insert -> Symbol -> More Symbols -> Special characters [scroll down]. Then select the name of the characters you need to use instead of its unicode.
The names of the characters you'll need to use [as specified in the first answer here] are:
"Right to Left Mark" : U+200F.
"Left to Right Embedding": U+202A.
"Pop Directional Formatting": U+202C.
As the first answer says, nothing will appear on the screen because it's a non-printing character, so it's normal if you felt like nothing happened when you insert.
If you need to do it the other way around, that is, insert a Hebrew or Arabic word in an English text, just reverse the use of unicodes -- Or follow the steps in the following link: https://superuser.com/a/1247476/767967
If you want to know more about what the special characters do and what it means to make your paragraph LTR or RTL, visit the following link: http://dotancohen.com/howto/rtl_right_to_left.html#Directionality
Select the paragraph (e.g. using triple click) and use the button for right-to-left direction (¶◀) in the Paragraph section of the Start pane.
As Hossein’s answer explains, the issue is the directionality in the paragraph. It changes to left to right when you insert a Latin letter, and you need to fix this manually.
You need to add an invisible RLE Unicode Character at the start of the line [^].
It's : 0x202B hex = 8235 decimal or RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING (RLE).
It's necessary for Notepad but MS-Word is able to handle it. you need to right align your text correctly.
How to enter RLE: http://www.fileformat.info/tip/microsoft/enter_unicode.htm
In word processing, you have a main text direction which is either left-to-right or right-to-left (or top to bottom, but let's ignore that :-), and you have a text direction for individual characters, which will also be left to right or right to left.
The word processor splits the text into chunks of strings with the same character ordering, then displays these chunks according to the main text ordering.
It seems that your main text ordering was left to right. As long as all your text is arabic, there is just one chunk with arabic text. You see already it is displayed left aligned and not right aligned because the text ordering is left to right. The characters are displayed right to left because that is how arabic is displayed.
When you inserted latin text, you had three chunks: Arabic, latin, arabic. These three chunks are displayed left to right because that is the main text ordering. That would be fine for text that is mostly latin (like "The arabic words for dog and cow are ... and ..."). For text that is mostly arabic with the occasional latin word, you need to change the main text ordering to "right to left".
Just follow this:
Copy and paste the arabic text into from word or text document to ADOBE Illustrator.
Save the illustrator document as in .EPS format.
Open indesign and place the .EPS document into the place you want.
Since indesign can't handle arabic text issue by it self, this method will help many designers.