Silverlight Hebrew & Arabic Language Support

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New Post: RTL support for WindowsPhone7(WP7)

RandallFlagg — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 04:20:42 GMT

Miscrosoft released SL4 with full support for RTL but at the same time released WP7 with no RTL support at all.

Is there any chance you could create a version for WP7 that is working?

Source code checked in, #63489

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Checked in by server upgrade

Commented Issue: Writing 'سلام' has error in TextBox [8089]

mabdulhadi — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:24:32 GMT

when i trying to write this word 'سلام دنیا' or 'سلام' an error occured by this message :

Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index

at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException(ExceptionArgument argument, ExceptionResource resource)
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException()
at System.Collections.Generic.List`1.get_Item(Int32 index)
at NBidi.NBidi.Paragraph.InternalCompose(StringBuilder target, List`1 char_lengths)
at NBidi.NBidi.Paragraph.NormalizeText()
at NBidi.NBidi.Paragraph.set_Text(String value)
at NBidi.NBidi.Paragraph..ctor(String text)
at NBidi.NBidi.SplitStringToParagraphs(String logicalString)
at NBidi.NBidi.LogicalToVisual(String logicalString, Int32[]& indexes, Int32[]& lengths)
at NBidi.NBidi.VisualToLogicalPosition(String logicalOrigStringNoRLM, Int32 visualPosition)
at System.Windows.BidiControls.TextBox.onInternalTextChanged(Object sender, TextChangedEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.CoreInvokeHandler.InvokeEventHandler(Int32 typeIndex, Delegate handlerDelegate, Object sender, Object args)
at MS.Internal.JoltHelper.FireEvent(IntPtr unmanagedObj, IntPtr unmanagedObjArgs, Int32 argsTypeIndex, String eventName)

Is There any Idea to Fix it ?
Thanks
Comments: ** Comment from web user: mabdulhadi **

I tried to fix it by downloading updated NBidi Algorithm (v1.2.1.1) from http://sourceforge.net/projects/nbidi/ and updating the code files in Nbidi Folder of System.Windows.BidiControls. It do solve the problem of throwing exception when you write "سلام دنيا" but unfortunately it do changes it to "سلما دنيا". Upon further testing I was relieved to find out that if you copy "سلام دنيا" and paste it into a text box it shows correctly.

I think it is same problem as that of writing "المالكى" where you have to put a space between each "Alif" and "Laam".

I am attaching updated Code. Please vote the post if you find it useful.

For people not having Arabic Keyboard (after adding standard Arabic 101 keyboard) can press "sghl ]kdh" to type "سلام دنيا"

Commented Issue: Expression blend crashes when bidi TextBlock's TextWrapping is set to 'wrap' in XAML [8664]

Itamar — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:19:03 GMT

Hello,
first of all- many thanks to all the contributors to this project.

I think there's a bug in the bidi TextBlock (haven't tried it with other controls).
TextWrapping set to 'wrap' in XAML causes Expression Blend 3 (EB3) to crash immediately upon opening that XAML file. If one tries to save it in EB3- it crashes without saving.
Everything works fine in the application itself. No such problem in VS.

worked around it by setting the TextWrapping from code.

Thank you,

Lior
Comments: ** Comment from web user: Itamar **

Hi,

I too had this issue. After digging a bit I found the issue to be in EnumValueConverter. I've just uploaded a patch for this - see http://silverlightrtl.codeplex.com/SourceControl/PatchList.aspx, patch #5088.

Good luck.

Itamar.

Patch Uploaded: #5088

Itamar — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:13:03 GMT

Itamar has uploaded a patch.

Description:
Fixes issues with BidiControls when using Blend. StackOverflowException is thrown consistently due to round references, and this makes Expressions Blend to crash every time.
The patch is really a one-liner in Common/EnumValueConverter -- where the Enum.Parse is being called explicitly instead of base.Convert.FromString. However, I've been porting some of Maxim's patch work as found in patch #2241 (without his new paragraphing).
This has been tested and confirmed to work with EB3 (which was unable to work until this patch).

New Post: Arabic in Silverlight

yewsef — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:50:29 GMT

Hello Guys,

I have a problem with Arabic in Silverlight. I can not make any href or any code for that matter. How do I overcome this? is there an Arabic version of SilverLight I can download? or Some kind of third party support?

Updated Wiki: Home

tamirk — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:10:20 GMT

Due to full RTL support in Silverlight 4 we will not maintain this project anymore. Huge respect for all contributers

Justin-Josef Angel for first implementation for Silverlight 1.1
Itai Bar-Haim: For Building the NBiDi Library. A .Net implementation of the BiDi (Bi-Directional) algorithm.
Yasser Makram and Santeon: For partially implementing Arabic NBiDi support, Arabic QA and some controls.
Tamir Khason: Which is me
Alex Golesh: Silverlight 3 RTW Adoptation

Updated Wiki: Home

tamirk — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:10:08 GMT

!Due to full RTL support in Silverlight 4 we will not maintain this project anymore. Huge respect for all contributers

Justin-Josef Angel for first implementation for Silverlight 1.1
Itai Bar-Haim: For Building the NBiDi Library. A .Net implementation of the BiDi (Bi-Directional) algorithm.
Yasser Makram and Santeon: For partially implementing Arabic NBiDi support, Arabic QA and some controls.
Tamir Khason: Which is me
Alex Golesh: Silverlight 3 RTW Adoptation

New Post: Error With RIA services

JonathanKr — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:40:52 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to set the ItemsSource of a Datagrid to a DomainContext and i'm getting the fallowing error:

"Enumeration has either not started or has already finished. "

This is my code:

EventsApp.Web.DomainLogic.EventDomainContext context = new EventsApp.Web.DomainLogic.EventDomainContext();

grdEvents.ItemsSource = context.Events;

context.Load(context.GetEventsQuery());

The code works with a ragular data:datagrid but i need support for Hebrew.

Thanks.

Created Issue: Data Validation [9098]

habmic — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:49:41 GMT

hello,
i have found a bug in the TextBox control.
when i am using DataValidation(using ValidationOnException) on this control, the behavior of the validation don't occur.
when i am using a regualr(non-bidi) TextBox the validation is working.

thanks,
haberman michael.

New Post: Blend crashes when I use BiDi in mainpage.xaml

uripelli — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:43:56 GMT

I installed BiDi.

It works fine when I use it in any page I create both with VWD and blend

when I try t use it with mainpage.xaml it works fine in VWD but whenever I open the file with blend blend crashes.

I'dd appriciate your help

Uri

New Post: Problem using bidi:DataGrid

antongenis — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:00:39 GMT

The type initializer for 'System.Windows.BidiControls.DataGridCheckBoxColumn' threw an exception.

the source code:

mygridHeb.ItemsSource = xmlDoc.Nodes();

//mygrid.ItemsSource = xmlDoc.Nodes(); //Works Fine

//<data:DataGrid Name="mygrid" Grid.Row="2" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Grid.Column="2"> </data:DataGrid>

<bidi:DataGrid Name="mygridHeb" Grid.Row="2" Grid.ColumnSpan="2" Grid.Column="2"> </bidi:DataGrid>

can any one help?

Reviewed: Silverlight 3 BiDi support (اكتوبر 03, 2009)

abdkok — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:44:55 GMT

Rated 5 Stars (out of 5) - Thanks. Very good support

New Post: How to install Bidicontrols downloads

OlegKleiman — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:22:38 GMT

Unzip the package into your favorite location, say C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v3.0\Libraries\BiDi.
Add the reference to BidiControls.dll into your VS or Blend project and ensure its "Copy Local" property is set to True. (that is default for Blend)
Add the namespace to xaml. Name it, say, "bidi", i.e. <xmlns :bidi="clr-namespace:System.Windows.BidiControls;assembly=BidiControls">. Mention that clr-namespace here is replaced from NBiDi to System.Windows.BiDiControls.
Use the assets, say <bidi:TextBlock Text="שחר" />

Created Issue: Expression blend crashes when bidi TextBlock's TextWrapping is set to 'wrap' in XAML

LiorC9 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:20:59 GMT

New Post: STEP BY STEP INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR BidiControls.dll

samit — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 18:40:14 GMT

Hi,

Can anyone provide me a STEP BY STEP INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR BidiControls.dll?

Any help in this regard would be appreciated.

Regards,

Samit

New Post: How to install Bidicontrols downloads

shaharthedancer — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:06:17 GMT

Hello,

I just downloaded your latest release of bidicontrols..

I don't understand what to do with it, and hoe to install it. can someone help me with this?

Thanx,

Shahar.

Created Issue: Clip is not working

omourad — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:40:40 GMT

adding a clip to a textblock is not working