language customization

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smarto59@hotmail.com - 06 Feb 2006 17:22 GMT

Im developing an application that accepts arabic string in
a text field. just I want to customize the application
to set the default language in arabic means the user
doesn't have to converts the language or the direction(right-to-left)
of the text from the keyboard. he just can insert the arabic string
directly.

thanks.

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Mark Thomas - 06 Feb 2006 17:55 GMT

> Im developing an application that accepts arabic string in
> a text field. just I want to customize the application
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>
> thanks.

You might try looking at the Locale class. Something like:

Locale.setDefault("ar","SA");

for Saudi Arabic.

Mark

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Thomas Fritsch - 06 Feb 2006 18:49 GMT

> You might try looking at the Locale class. Something like:
>
> Locale.setDefault("ar","SA");
>
> for Saudi Arabic.

As an alternative you can call your java application with some special
system properties:
java -Duser.language=ar -Duser.region=SA ...
The effect is the same as above: The default locale is set to ar_SA.

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smarto59@hotmail.com - 06 Feb 2006 19:10 GMT

Thank you Thomas and the sun of Thomas Im glad to hear from you.
in fact I've tried Locale class already and this is a peice of my code:

Locale locale = new Locale("ar","SA");
Locale.setDefault(locale);
but still when i type a text in the text field it appears in English.
and I
have to convert it in to arabic from the keyboard abbrivaition.
Also Im trying to use Font.layoutGlyphVector to change the
direction of the text -right to left- but I don't know how to do that.
so help plz

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Roedy Green - 06 Feb 2006 23:15 GMT

>but still when i type a text in the text field it appears in English.

You have to swap the keyboard driver. I don't think Java does this
for you. If you are using windows, go in the control panel keyboard
and set up a hot swap between Arabic and English keyboard layouts.

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Roedy Green - 06 Feb 2006 23:13 GMT

>You might try looking at the Locale class. Something like:
>
> Locale.setDefault("ar","SA");

You can also discover the default locale. See
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/locale.html

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