[Dspace-general] [Dspace-tech] Arabic Support in Dspace

[Kim Shepherd]

Hi Antonio,

 

If you haven’t found any documentation or examples specifically for Arabic, you might be interested in this Persian example from EIAH – it was demonstrated at OR 09 and handles a lot of the challenges you will face – right to left hand side (and bidirectional when English phrases are quoted etc), zero-width non-joiners, etc..

 

The slides/presentation notes are here: http://conferences.library.gatech.edu/or/or09/paper/viewPDFInterstitial/153/65

 

It doesn’t go into a great deal of detail – it was fascinating just to see that this is possible, though, so perhaps the people at EIAH can help to document this further or share some notes. I believe there are many similarities between Persian and Arabic character/input/date handling?

 

Cheers,

 

Kim

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IRR Technical Specialist

ITS Systems & Development

The University of Waikato

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From: Antonio Cuomo [mailto:antonio at parliaments.info] 
Sent: Thursday, 11 June 2009 2:14 a.m.
To: Dspace-general at mit.edu; dspace-tech
Subject: [Dspace-tech] Arabic Support in Dspace

 

Hi dspace community, I'm writing to ask if D-Space support the Arab language:

Does D-space come in Arabic ?

has DSpace the support to allow typing from right side to left side?  (e.g. http://www.google.co.ke/language_tools?hl=ar all the input form use the right left sense) 

Thank you very much!
Antonio

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