Arabic Numbers in Windows XP Pro

[Guest]

I have been using Arabic in Windows XP for years, and no matter what I do I can't get traditional Arabic numbers to display. All I can get are western numbers. This is a problem in Office XP applications, msn messenger, yahoo messenger, ICQ, Wordpad and Notepad. Al Mawrid Dictionary and Universal Word will display Arabic numbers, but if I copy and paste them into the other applications, they appear as western numbers

Other people I know do not have this problem, but they have been unable to help me. Any suggestions would be welcome

 

[Jim Macklin]

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Those are Arabic numerals

You might look to see what fonts you have installed.


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| I have been using Arabic in Windows XP for years, and no
matter what I do I can't get traditional Arabic numbers to
display. All I can get are western numbers. This is a
problem in Office XP applications, msn messenger, yahoo
messenger, ICQ, Wordpad and Notepad. Al Mawrid Dictionary
and Universal Word will display Arabic numbers, but if I
copy and paste them into the other applications, they appear
as western numbers.
|
| Other people I know do not have this problem, but they
have been unable to help me. Any suggestions would be
welcome.
|
|

 

[Guest]

please follow the following steps

1- go to Control Panel
2-open "Regional and Language Options
3- under "Regional Options" select your country from the drop-down menu. fox example Arabic (Eygpt
4- click "Apply
5- click "OK

done

if you still need help, please let me know.

----- Shirin wrote: ----

I have been using Arabic in Windows XP for years, and no matter what I do I can't get traditional Arabic numbers to display. All I can get are western numbers. This is a problem in Office XP applications, msn messenger, yahoo messenger, ICQ, Wordpad and Notepad. Al Mawrid Dictionary and Universal Word will display Arabic numbers, but if I copy and paste them into the other applications, they appear as western numbers

Other people I know do not have this problem, but they have been unable to help me. Any suggestions would be welcome

 

[Guest]

Ya Mohammed

Thank you very much for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I have tried that and it didn't solve the problem of the numbers. I still got western numbers in every application except Al Mawrid dictionary and Universal Word, which determine these things independently of Microsoft settings

But I finally did solve the problem for MS Office Applications. I changed the numeral setting in tools/Options/Complex Languages/numerals from Arabic to Hindi. I don't know why I didn't think of that before now since the traditional Arabic numbers are actually Indian and the western numbers are actually Arabic

 

[Guest]

Thanks, yes, I know those are actually Arabic numerals, but for some bizarre reason, Arabs traditionally use Indian numerals,although there is some regional variation. It was the Indian numerals I was trying to get, For the solution to my problem, see my response to Mohammed

----- Jim Macklin wrote: ----

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Those are Arabic numeral

You might look to see what fonts you have installed


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| I have been using Arabic in Windows XP for years, and n
matter what I do I can't get traditional Arabic numbers t
display. All I can get are western numbers. This is
problem in Office XP applications, msn messenger, yaho
messenger, ICQ, Wordpad and Notepad. Al Mawrid Dictionar
and Universal Word will display Arabic numbers, but if
copy and paste them into the other applications, they appea
as western numbers

| Other people I know do not have this problem, but the
have been unable to help me. Any suggestions would b
welcome

 

[Jim Macklin]

Yes, I saw that, glad that you figured the problem out.


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| Thanks, yes, I know those are actually Arabic numerals,
but for some bizarre reason, Arabs traditionally use Indian
numerals,although there is some regional variation. It was
the Indian numerals I was trying to get, For the solution
to my problem, see my response to Mohammed.
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| ----- Jim Macklin wrote: -----
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| 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Those are Arabic numerals
|
| You might look to see what fonts you have installed.
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| message
|
| | I have been using Arabic in Windows XP for years,
and no
| matter what I do I can't get traditional Arabic
numbers to
| display. All I can get are western numbers. This is a
| problem in Office XP applications, msn messenger,
yahoo
| messenger, ICQ, Wordpad and Notepad. Al Mawrid
Dictionary
| and Universal Word will display Arabic numbers, but
if I
| copy and paste them into the other applications, they
appear
| as western numbers.
| |
| | Other people I know do not have this problem, but
they
| have been unable to help me. Any suggestions would be
| welcome.
| |
| |
|
|
|

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately, it turns out to be a less than perfect solution. It seems the settings for numerals in complex languages is global and not document by document, so if I change an Arabic document to Hindi numberals, all numerals throughout Word and Outlook are Hindi, and if I change an English document to Arabic numerals all my Arabic documents switch back to the wrong numerals.

This is an incredibly dumb design for software that has multilingual capabilities! Maybe there is a way around it, but I haven't found it so far. If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it.

----- Jim Macklin wrote: -----

Yes, I saw that, glad that you figured the problem out.


message
| Thanks, yes, I know those are actually Arabic numerals,
but for some bizarre reason, Arabs traditionally use Indian
numerals,although there is some regional variation. It was
the Indian numerals I was trying to get, For the solution
to my problem, see my response to Mohammed.
|
| ----- Jim Macklin wrote: -----
|
| 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Those are Arabic numerals
|
| You might look to see what fonts you have installed.
|
|
in
| message
|
| | I have been using Arabic in Windows XP for years,
and no
| matter what I do I can't get traditional Arabic
numbers to
| display. All I can get are western numbers. This is a
| problem in Office XP applications, msn messenger,
yahoo
| messenger, ICQ, Wordpad and Notepad. Al Mawrid
Dictionary
| and Universal Word will display Arabic numbers, but
if I
| copy and paste them into the other applications, they
appear
| as western numbers.
| |
| | Other people I know do not have this problem, but
they
| have been unable to help me. Any suggestions would be
| welcome.
| |
| |
|
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|