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Hi,

First of all, apologies for writing in English but I can't speak or read any Arabic, I am just maintaining a site with some Arabic articles.

I have one annoying problem: whenever I paste an Arabic title containing also an exclamation or question mark, that exclamation mark is always being put at the end of the title, so in the LTR way, not RTL.

Is there any way around this?

My site it is UTF-8 by the way.

Try switching to ( windows-1256 ) instead of UTF-8

Hello

If I understand the problem correctly the error only occurs when certain non-arabic characters come at the end of an arabic string,while I don't have a satisfying solution for this "but I'll surely search for one" I came up with a workaround ,a rather Ugly one  .

You need to make sure that the Exclamation mark doesn't come last by appending an arabic letter to the string,instead of appending a full sized letter you can append tiny letter that hardly appears,it's what we call "Tashkeel" or Diacritics,they are considered letters internally by the rendering engine,however, they're not quite visible to the viewers.

Here's a sample of how it works

Before:
 


After:

in order to use this copy and paste the following character after your Exclamation mark.



Ofcourse this is not the best way around,I'll do some research on that issue I'll let you know if I find anything.

Merhaba!

Thanks for the help. Switching to windows-1256 is no option for me, I need UTF-8 because the site is mainly in English, French and Spanish. So UTF-8 is the best character set for this kind of site.

dr_drsh, I tried your work-around but unfortunately it doesn't work. The diacritic character comes up as a normal question mark, though the good thing about it is that the exclamation mark indeed appeared on the left of the title.

Here is the link: http://www.marxist.com/defend-palestini ... arabic.htm

الدفاع عن الشعب الفلسطيني

should be

!الدفاع عن الشعب الفلسطيني

But when I copy and paste this from http://marxy.com/campaigns/defence-pale ... 060706.htm (the original site, which is in plain HTML) the exclamation mark appears on the right.

Does anybody else have this problem?

Try to set the direction of the arabic(and other rtl languages) titles to rtl by using CSS



with some php knowledge you can modify the template to load a specific CSS file for rtl and another for ltr.

Let me tell you about something may help you. it may solve the problem. after editing the arabic article in the editor, save the conent and then re-open it but ( in the no-editor mode) so that the html codes appear. when it appear try to add this code to the end of the html code



i think it may help, not sure but try

well ,



This has nothing to do with the problem , it's about site direction . It should be one direction for always . You've chosen to use LTR , it's ok and we understand your idea .



A quick solution for this , just put the mark before the sentence you write as title and it'll appear nicely . 

Further , for the content itself , after you finish the article go in no editor mode and wrap the article with this html code



I hope this is helpful enough and welcome to the Arabic forum ,
Mohammed