[MarkLogic Dev General] arabic and other right to left scripts

[Alan Darnell]

Great -- thanks Mary.  Will give this a try.

On 3-Aug-07, at 7:36 PM, Mary Holstege wrote:

> On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:00:25 -0700, Alan Darnell  
> <alan.darnell at utoronto.ca> wrote:
>
>> I've got a few records in my database in languages / scripts that  
>> read from right to left.
>> If I cut and paste some of this text into a search box, I get no  
>> results.  I'm just
>> wondering how MarkLogic stores these kinds of alphabets and is  
>> there something I
>> need to do in my XQuery to let the system know that something  
>> different is headed its way?
>>
>> Alan
>> University of Toronto
>>
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>
> Right to left scripts get stored in "logical" order: the right-to- 
> leftness
> is a matter for the renderer (e.g. the browser). Unfortunately,  
> browsers
> have a lot of bugs in this area and are easily confused. Putting the
> attribute dir="rtl" in your HTML can help some browsers. You may also
> run afoul of system clipboards deciding to flop character encodings on
> you without warning. As far as the XQuery is concerned, as long as
> you're sending the correct Unicode codepoints (properly encoded),  
> things
> should work just fine.
>
> As far as troubleshooting goes, calling xdmp:describe() on your query
> string to make sure it is the codepoints you think it is is a good  
> start.
>
> //Mary
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