Kbase P150294: Does Translation Manager allow translation to Arabic?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
29/07/2009 |
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Status: Unverified
GOAL:
Does Translation Manager allow translation to right to left languages like Arabic?
GOAL:
Can an application be translated to Arabic using Progress?
FACT(s) (Environment):
Windows
OpenEdge 10.x
Translation Manager 2.0
FIX:
Yes, Translation Manager supports translation of applications to Arabic.
Some points to consider when performing such translations:
1. Ideally the source application strings should be in English ASCII or a compatible code page. If the strings are not in a compatible code page then this will lead to difficulty translating the strings. For possible ways to resolve this please see solution P110682, "How to use TranMan to translate languages that use incompatible code pages.".
2. Depending on the comparative lengths of the source and target strings, the source code (Windows) may need modification to allow for display of the full translated text.
3. Translation Manager can work with right to left written text, and it will translate a source string to a string written right-to-left. However it will not reposition strings with respect to other screen objects. For example repositioning a fillin label from the fillins left hand side to its right hand side.
4. Arabic text should be entered using an Arabic keyboard, and cursor screen position justification can be switched using CTRL+RightShift and CTRL+LeftShift.
5. The translation and compilation of the source code should use a Progress session started with either the UTF-8 code page or 1256.
6. The Translation Manager database must remain using the 'undefined' code page.