I received files from a client that use a mixture of English and an Arabic alphabet, but upon opening, symbols have replaced the Arabic letters.
I've tried using a couple different word processors, and I've found an answer from Microsoft help center that should solve my problem. http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/word-help/choose-text-encoding-when-you-open-and-save-files-HA010121249.aspx#BM2
However, I get stuck after #4. The instructions say that once you check off the option to "Confirm file format conversion on open", the Conversion dialogue will open automatically when you open a document ... but this is just not happening. I've tried restarting the program.
Does anyone know what is going on?
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I have file save in CSV format, when I opened in my local machine the Arabic character is coming proper. However when I placed the file in the server the Arabic character is change to سورية
I intsall the Arabic package on the server and remove the file and placed again it’s getting the same issue.
Anyone have a solution please???
Yesterday i tried so many ways
The problem could be what you're trying to it up in. I often have this problem if I try to open an Arabic csv up directly in Excel. To get it to work in Excel I have to import it and set the encoding as utf-8 in the import dialogue box. Google Sheets is a bit smarter than Excel, and I can open files like that directly, though.
I am having some issues in trying to get certain unicode characters to show up when trying to type. It seems that no matter what I do I can't get them to appear outside of certain specific places.
The two characters that I am trying to get show up are:
𛀀 and 𛀁
The Japanese archaic katakana e and Japanese archaic hiragana ye. In unicode they are in the Kana Supplement block.
You can find them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana_Supplement
I can't seem to get these characters to show up outside of these instances:
In firefox when hardware acceleration disabled (and only when it is disabled)
This webpage: http://www.akenotsuki.com/eyeben/font/unicode.html
The second webpage works even when hardware acceleration in firefox is enabled.
Here's what I've tried to do to resolve the issue:
Installing & reinstalling proper fonts
Rebooting the computer
Clearing the font cache
Setting the system locale to Japanese (hey, it was worth a shot)
None of which has worked. Can someone please help me? I want to get this to resolve itself especially because I want to be able to use this in Photoshop.
I have a wordpress installation that clients can edit, all characters display ok. On the main homepage I query the same database for the same title and post content, but it doesn't display correctly - just a question mark
I have tried sending the utf8 headers manually, through htaccess and through meta tags. I have used SET name UTF8 (which turns the characters into the diamond symbol with a questionmark inside).
I genuinely cant figure out what it could be now and I really need these characters to display correctly.
Heres the homepage, you can see in the Sounddhism 6 preview that there are lots of question marks, if you click on it you will see what they are meant to look like
http://nottingham.subverb.net
I have passed it through the validator and it gives me this error:
Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 373 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication.
The error was: utf8 "\xA0" does not map to Unicode
Which, i appreciate is supposed to help me, but I don't know what to do about it. Especially since that line, the letter generating the error is supposed to be a space and is AFTER the offending question marks.
Can anyone help?
Compare the encoding of both the back-end scripts in Wordpress and also your homepage script. If you're using IE, right-click the page and check the encoding. Sometimes it's set to "Auto-detect" and IE will often detect a different encoding for different pages, causing strange issues like this.
If you're not using IE, try using a tool like Fiddler to see exactly what encoding (and what bytes are being sent back and forth both in the back-end and your homepage script.
If forcing UTF-8 on your homepage script doesn't work, I would guess that the back-end is not using UTF-8.
I see with some apps like Toodledo they use checkmarks for their revision history. How can you show/use special characters in an App Store product description? Does it allow HTML or do you just have to use ascii character codes?
Any tips/tricks for better presentation of our app's product information?
Thank you.
I think Apple just made the rule stricter on the App Store. I have been using special characters in my metadatas for a very long time but got a bad surprise today when trying to submit a new version:
Got this error message on iTunes Connect:
What's New In This Version must not contain the following characters: ★, ❤
Simply enter the characters using the character table in OS X.
To show it, go to OS X System Preferences -> International and select "Show Input Sources in Menu Bar". You should get a flag symbol next to the clock in the menu bar. Clicking on it results in a menu where you can open the character table, in which you can select and paste pretty much any character.
I am the author of the Toodledo app. Here is how I did it. I found the character I wanted on the internet by searching for "unicode symbols". I found it on wikipedia
I then copy and pasted the checkmark ✓ into my app description. And every time I need to make a new checkmark, I go and copy and paste it again since I don't know how to type it. There are lots of interesting symbols to choose from. I also use a star★
UnicodeChecker is an excellent Mac app that contains a database of over 100,000 characters defined in Unicode. You can search for characters by their assigned English names. For example, search for "check" to find several kinds of checkmark characters. Once found, you can copy a character and paste into your description.
UnicodeChecker is free of cost.
I want to add some comments to my mp3s but my comments all are in non-latin characters like arabic.
I have written a shell program to get the comments from user in windows but since LAME.exe is a console program I don't know how to convert these non-latin character to something meaningful for LAME.
so is there any way to add these kind of comments using LAME.exe?
regards.
I think you're going to have real trouble doing it on the Windows command line, as everything will be working in the system default code page (ANSI) and not Unicode. You won't be able to use Arabic at all unless you're on an Arabic Windows install (ANSI=code page 1256; settable in the region options), and even then I'm not sure it'll actually use the right encoding.
In any case lame.exe is not a good choice for editing tags, as it's an audio encoder, which will decode and re-encode the MP3, causing quality loss.
There are many graphical apps that will batch re-tag MP3s. If you want a scriptable solution you're probably better off with a higher-level language/library that supports Unicode better than the Windows command line/bat files (eg Python + Mutagen, but there are many possibilities depending on what languages you're familiar with).