in reply to Re: Perl\Tk Arabic %100 Support Almost There !
in thread Perl\Tk Arabic %100 Support Almost There !
Hi Hisham..
Great to hear from you again !
About your first point, I didn't really put any Rapidshare link.. If you mean the links for pictures they are hosted on wordpress and I double checked them and they are fine, please feed me back if this isn't the case in order to upload them somewhere else.
As for the second part, no problem at all ..
First of all, I have this application upon my friends request ,though it is very small but it has a great value for Arabic poetry. The problem was that many of my friends are real world poets and they don't know anything about running CGI scripts so I tried to change the interface from CGI to Tk which was my first choice because of great documentation..
To make long story short, I had these difficulties on showing Arabic chars. let alone working with them and get results.
So, I used:
1- Strawberry on Vista
2- Trial Komodo IDE
3- Trial ActiveState PerlApp for building the standalone App.
As for the Perl code I couldn't get it showed properly here in the forum because of the plenty Arabic text it has, but as I noted before there was only three steps:
1- use utf8.
2- change the default font to Arial.
3- Justify entries to right.
*4- Avoid using encoding and decoding.