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Mohab
Mohab

Reputation: 109

Is it possible to use Arabic as a resource "culture Language" on WP7?

I understand WP7 support limited number of language as Culture for localization BUT Silverlight itself support more language so my question is Can I make culture info take arguments of "any from supported language" and in resource file string write my own "needed" to support language in my app in this case it's Arabic language ?? in other words file resource.fr.resx and supply strings with Arabic data ? Will it pass for certification?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 381

Answers (2)

Sharjeel Ahmed
Sharjeel Ahmed

Reputation: 2061

For Windows Phone 7 i wrote a mapping function which maps the Arabic encoding[windows-1256] into default WP7 encoding. 

public static string ConvertToArabic(string s)
        {
            short[] mapping = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 8364, 1662, 8218, 402, 8222, 8230, 8224, 8225, 710, 8240, 1657, 8249, 338, 1670, 1688, 1672, 1711, 8216, 8217, 8220, 8221, 8226, 8211, 8212, 1705, 8482, 1681, 8250, 339, 8204, 8205, 1722, 160, 1548, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 1726, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 1563, 187, 188, 189, 190, 1567, 1729, 1569, 1570, 1571, 1572, 1573, 1574, 1575, 1576, 1577, 1578, 1579, 1580, 1581, 1582, 1583, 1584, 1585, 1586, 1587, 1588, 1589, 1590, 215, 1591, 1592, 1593, 1594, 1600, 1601, 1602, 1603, 224, 1604, 226, 1605, 1606, 1607, 1608, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 1609, 1610, 238, 239, 1611, 1612, 1613, 1614, 244, 1615, 1616, 247, 1617, 249, 1618, 251, 252, 8206, 8207, 1746 };

        string str = string.Empty;
        for (int ix = 0; ix < s.Length; ++ix)
        {
            str = str +  (char)mapping[s[ix]];
        }
        return str;
    }

This worked for me perfectly.

Upvotes: 1

Matt Lacey
Matt Lacey

Reputation: 65566

Windows Phone 7 does not support Arabic character sets (But Windows Phone 8 will).

Some applications have worked around this with custom fonts but this approach will require lots of careful testing.

Upvotes: 0

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