Arabic Language in WinCE

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Is there a way i can install Arabic language in windows CE or i have to install an Arabic version of Win CE ?

Posted 23-Oct-12 2:46am

ayat abukhadra

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-23T06:34:00

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You need to support Unicode, that's it. This will give you the idea:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_in_Microsoft_Windows#Windows_CE[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms927937.aspx[^],
http://www.hjgode.de/wp/tag/unicode/[^].

Unfortunately, you did not provide any detail. What do you mean by "installing a language"? Arabo-Persian script (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabo-Persian_script[^]) is supported by default by most modern systems, but particular font or application may not support it. In windows, the single font may not support Unicode, but most usually support many scripts at once.

—SA

Posted 23-Oct-12 6:34am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 23-Oct-12 6:35am

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ayat abukhadra 24-Oct-12 1:17am

What i have is a PDA and i wanna support Arabic language for it , is there's a way i can do it ?? if so can u please tell me , co'z while i was doing some research's i came out with this idea that i have to install an Arabic version for CE because i can't support the original one with Arabic language ? is that true ?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Oct-12 10:20am

I don't know what Arabic version is based on. Hopefully, on Unicode. If you are talking about support of your applications, you need to use Unicode in coding of text and use appropriate fonts, those supporting at least English, punctuation, etc. + Arabic. Usually Unicode fonts support pretty big number of scripts; and if they do, Arabic nearly always included. You can always install additional fonts, but it depends how you deploy them. And, the keyboard layout... usually it's up to the user. If a user types Arabic, it's already in the system, if not -- this user might not need it.
--SA

ayat abukhadra 30-Oct-12 9:21am

I've contact the developers of the device I'm using and seems to be the problem with the device it self , hope they'd find a solution for me , thanks for your help

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Oct-12 10:09am

That would be good.
Good luck,
--SA

ayat abukhadra 13-Nov-12 8:27am

Hello,
I've recently installed a package for win CE with Arabic support but my device keyboard doesn't show Arabic letters , what would be the problem ?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 13-Nov-12 9:46am

To start with, can you type/read Arabic with anything at all? Installed a proper keyboard layout? (Keyboard does not "show", and it is not related to languages, it only generates scan codes.)
--SA

ayat abukhadra 14-Nov-12 2:06am

actually now it works i can show/hide an arabic keyboard beside the original one , thanks for your help :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Nov-12 11:40am

Great. You are welcome.
Good luck, call again.
--SA

Basmeh Awad 7-May-15 11:13am

Hi Ayat,
Can you please share which package you installed? in my case i just want to show my applications Label,Buttons in Arabic right now it is showing "???????"
can you please share which font to install or what are the steps with appropriate links please