Architecture / Installation

Posted by joelg 09 Jun 2004 15:04 GMT-0000 posts: 104

There are two issues in coding Hebrew and Arabic:

1. The character set: in principle, this is taken care of quite simply by the fact that Tiki uses UTF-8 character encoding, which means (as the message shows) that - bar bugs 😑 - it can quite happily cope with pretty much any character display. This is reasonably straightforward as long as your browser/OS can cope with UTF-8 and as long as you have the right character set installed.
2. Another much more tricky problem is right-to-left character display. There are all sorts of horrible things about RTL (for example, the fact that text tends to be stored in reverse order in databases, so that the sort routines still work ok). Suggest you look here for some information and hints:

http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=TikiWikiInternationalizationAndLanguages