Arabic

**Morrile** · Dec 20, 2012 12:27

Hello,

I now have the opportunity to expend my website into Arabic, but I have a major problem Western text is Left to right whereas Arabic is Right to left. When I copy the text sent to me in Arabic, it copies the text wrong. The template start as below...

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="ar">

I have been informed, maybe misinformed, that within HTML 5 the last line above is not valid, also the DIR= is also redundant, therefore what is the right code to overcome this annoying issue?

Morrile

**xhtmlcoder** · Dec 20, 2012 13:29

Experimental h5 is non normative but still RTL is the value you'd use for the text direction. Regarding the META pragma directive it would be deemed 'obsolete' in h5, you could consider specifying the language on the root element instead. For example; HTML lang="ar" that should very loosely cover both questions posed regarding the markup aspect.

**Morrile** · Dec 20, 2012 13:31

Originally Posted by xhtmlcoder

you could consider specifying the language on the root element instead, e.g. HTML lang="ar" that should very loosely cover both questions posed.

So does that replace both of these lines?

<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="ar">

Morrile

**xhtmlcoder** · Dec 20, 2012 13:47

No, only the following: ~~<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="ar">~~ would be obsolete since you cannot use that pragma (for the experimental h5). One alternative way would be use the lang attribute on the HTML root, resulting in: <html lang="ar" dir="rtl"> instead.

**Morrile** · Dec 20, 2012 14:18

many thanks

**Stomme poes** · Dec 20, 2012 14:40

The dir=rtl in your html tag *should* (in proper user agents) also fix your text-copying.

**Morrile** · Dec 20, 2012 14:43

Hello Robert,

There is an error at line 5, column 7 (absolute position 59) of "templates:Persian.dwt": Unbalanced #EndEditable tag

What does this mean?

Morrile

**Stomme poes** · Dec 20, 2012 14:52

That has to do with your HTML editing software (dreamweaver?). It seems to be saying somewhere you started an editing tag but didn't close it, or you're closing one you never opened.

But this is not an HTML error. HTML doesn't have Editable anythings (except the new contenteditable stuff they've added recently)

**xhtmlcoder** · Dec 20, 2012 15:54

That's a Dreamweaver specific error with a DW template editable region (I don't have Dreamweaver installed or use it) to be balanced there has to be a #BeginEditable region and an #EndEditableRegion maybe you should create a new template loosely based on that one.

**Morrile** · Dec 20, 2012 16:12

Many thanks folks. I shall investigate further

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