Cannot display arabic font...

[ErnejunCorvera]

Most of my shapefile's attribute table are in arabic font and on the pop.ups, txt are appeared in different characters which cant be read...i really appreciate for any help on this matter...thanks

[ShellyGill2]

Hi,

I can save a map with arabic characters by entering them directly into a pop-up of a Map Notes feature, and then re-open correctly, so I assume the problem is to do with the shapefile format and uploading.

The .dbf part of a shapefile that holds the attributes is not written in unicode, so shapefiles can either have a locale ID written in to the DBF file, or an accompanying .cpg codepage file, to indicate the locale they are written in and so deal correctly with different alphabets. However, support for these two things is not universal. Can you post a sample of your data so we can check this out, and find out if the information is present, and also if it's not being honored on the upload of the shapefile?

If you created the file yourself from ArcMap, then you might want to check out this Knowledge Base article that describes a workaround when shapefiles lack this information - is your system using this setting (if you're using ArcMap):
http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/21106

[ErnejunCorvera]

I did changed my dbfDefault but still the problem exist. Here's one my shapefile in zip..hope u can help me with this..

[ShellyGill2]

Thanks for posting the shapefile. The shapefile is ANSI, and the Language ID in the file is indicating ANSI. I'll have to refer this issue to another team, and I'll post back here with any information I can.

I did changed my dbfDefault but still the problem exist.

The dbfDefault setting will definately not make any difference to the upload or display in the browser - its only going to affect viewing the shapefile in ArcGIS Desktop on your system (the Silverlight runtime does not have access to your system registry to read this for security reasons).

I was trying to find out any other ways around this issue - After doing some more research, I'm not sure that the windows arabic codepage can be encoded into the ANSI dbf file structure (there is not enough space available in the file structure to indicate the higher codepages). According to KB article 21106, you can have UTF-8 unicode shapefiles, so they would be able to store arabic characters correctly and it's possible the upload would work then; however, I cannot find out how to create a file like this, so I'm afraid I have no solution for this at the moment and I'll have to post back when I get some more information.

[JamalNUMAN]

Thanks for posting the shapefile. The shapefile is ANSI, and the Language ID in the file is indicating ANSI. I'll have to refer this issue to another team, and I'll post back here with any information I can.



The dbfDefault setting will definately not make any difference to the upload or display in the browser - its only going to affect viewing the shapefile in ArcGIS Desktop on your system (the Silverlight runtime does not have access to your system registry to read this for security reasons).

I was trying to find out any other ways around this issue - After doing some more research, I'm not sure that the windows arabic codepage can be encoded into the ANSI dbf file structure (there is not enough space available in the file structure to indicate the higher codepages). According to KB article 21106, you can have UTF-8 unicode shapefiles, so they would be able to store arabic characters correctly and it's possible the upload would work then; however, I cannot find out how to create a file like this, so I'm afraid I have no solution for this at the moment and I'll have to post back when I get some more information.

Hi,

I've a problem now with the arabic font in ArcGIS 10

While ArcGIS 9.3 can read the domain of a geodatabase written in arabic, ArcGIS 10 can't!!!!!

please, see the attached screenshots

how can i solve this problem?

i need to work with my old geodatabases (that contain domains in arabic) in ArcGIS 10

thank you in advance,

regards

Jamal

[JamalNUMAN]

Most of my shapefile's attribute table are in arabic font and on the pop.ups, txt are appeared in different characters which cant be read...i really appreciate for any help on this matter...thanks

I think this problem is windows related!

please, see the screenshots below and try to adjust your settings accordingly.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]11376[/ATTACH], [ATTACH=CONFIG]11377[/ATTACH], [ATTACH=CONFIG]11378[/ATTACH]

let me know if that has worked

best

Jamal