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Take a look. "Seats in 75: [arab text]"

Probably something to do with how the program handles those characters. I'll bring Wouter's attention to this thread, but it isn't likely to be fixed for Particracy I; it may, however, be fixed in Particracy II, as chances are the same problem could theoretically become manifest there.

I honestly thought different characters did not appear in the game. I once tried Greek but had failed completely.

George S.K wrote:I honestly thought different characters did not appear in the game. I once tried Greek but had failed completely.

It depends. I know that the server has had trouble with anything essentially outside the Western alphabets before (when playing in Deltaria I couldn't get certain accented characters to work), and of course it completely borked on any accented character in the transition a while ago.

There may not be a real good way to fix that; Arabic is written right-to-left, and is encoded to align right-to-left in Unicode, if I recall correctly. Maybe if you force any user-enterable variable to appear inside an HTML table cell (not sure, maybe a SPAN element would work too?), you can force the text to appear where it is desired, but otherwise... it's a mixture of Western and MidEastern writing systems, and they don't play well together.

It could be worse. Asian languages are often written Top to Bottom... mix all three and who knows what crazy alignment pattern you could get.

admtrap wrote:There may not be a real good way to fix that; Arabic is written right-to-left, and is encoded to align right-to-left in Unicode, if I recall correctly. Maybe if you force any user-enterable variable to appear inside an HTML table cell (not sure, maybe a SPAN element would work too?), you can force the text to appear where it is desired, but otherwise... it's a mixture of Western and MidEastern writing systems, and they don't play well together.

It could be worse. Asian languages are often written Top to Bottom... mix all three and who knows what crazy alignment pattern you could get.

Don't tempt me to try

AngryMollusc wrote:Don't tempt me to try

I dare you to try it.