Arabic Lanaguage support

[shahn]

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

 

[Jens Peter Karlsen[FP MVP]]

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.

 

[shahn]

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

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:[email protected]]
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

 

[Jens Peter Karlsen[FP MVP]]

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:[email protected]]
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

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:[email protected]]
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

 

[shahn]

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.

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:[email protected]]
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

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:[email protected]]
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

 

[Jens Peter Karlsen [FP MVP]]

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.

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.

:

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:[email protected]]
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

:


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:[email protected]]
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