Re: Arabic Lanaguage support

Follow this Form tutorial.
http://www.webreference.com/html/tutorial13/1.html

It is rather long but should explain just about all worth knowing about forms.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.

shahn wrote:
Thank you very much indeed. I did consider POST and GET with the FORM, but with the same results :-(
In OPTIONS FOR CUSTOMS FORMS HANDLER dialog box, there is space for "Encoding type:" It remains blank by default. Can I specify any specific encoding here? If yes, what will be the syntax? Perhaps by force-specifying this encoding will solve the problem.
It is to be remembered that without ANY specific workarounds, my home laptop has no such problem. Maybe Windows installation types are different? I wonder.

"Jens Peter Karlsen[FP MVP]" wrote:


The parameters are translated to html entities because these arabic
signs can't be represented as is in an url.
When you retrieve the parameters you must take this into account and
translate the entities back to the actual arabic signs.
Have you considered using POST instead of GET? Of course if it doesn't
come from a form you can't do this.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage.


-----Original Message-----
From: shahn [mailto:shahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Posted At: 17. april 2005 08:50
Posted To: microsoft.public.frontpage.programming
Conversation: Arabic Lanaguage support
Subject: Re: Arabic Lanaguage support


Thanx for the quick response. I think I'll rephrase my question. The page IS an ASP page. The hyperlink has parameter which is in Arabic language. The database is mixed - English and Arabic. The English parameters have no problem in retrieving records from the database. It is only the Arabic characters that show either '????' or something like '%1%2%3+' etc and retrieve no records although these parameters do come from the same database records. I have tried different encoding settings. Weird thing is it is working fine at my home laptop :-)

"Jens Peter Karlsen[FP MVP]" wrote:


A hyperlink can not retrieve data from a database. You need

to use a 

serverside language such as ASP to do that.

Regards Jens Peter Karlsen. Microsoft MVP - Frontpage. 


-----Original Message-----
From: shahn [mailto:shahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Posted At: 16. april 2005 12:58
Posted To: microsoft.public.frontpage.programming
Conversation: Arabic Lanaguage support
Subject: Arabic Lanaguage support


Arabic language Hyperlinks are not working for retrieving

data from

MS Access database having data in Arabic. Language

setting has been

modified to support the language. Although the page shows arabic words, the link bar shows something like %3%2%1 etc.
Please help
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shahn


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