Can anyone read Arabic???

Question

I can't read Arabic, but to translate my site I have been
copying & pasting Arabic text from MS Word into design view. It
seemed to be working fine. Then when I uploaded my site, it
seemed to look the way it should, but I noticed something a
little off on this page:
http://www.whsphealthcaremanagement.com/arabic/contactus.html
When I originally pasted this text in DW, the numbers in the
phone # appeared reversed (right to left), but when viewed in a
browser window, they read left to right.
Then I looked at the characters on the other pages more
closely, thinking that they would all be appearing backwards. But
they don't even look like the same characters to me.
They look the same from Word to DW, but not from DW to
browser.
I do plan to have someone proofread this, but I'm confused -
I just want to know why this might be happening? might this be a
font or server-related issue?

Answer 1

BullocksTroy wrote:
>
http://www.whsphealthcaremanagement.com/arabic/ceoletter.html
>
> Notice in the last paragraph, the phone number is split
in half. But in the
> original DW document I pasted it in, the numbers are not
only reversed from how
> they appear here, but they are all in the middle of the
paragraph and not
> separated...
> help!
Help, I think, is the right word. Just looking at the layout,
without
understanding a word, I can see several things wrong. All
your text is
left-justified. In a right-to-left language, it should be
right-justified. Also take a look at the end of each
paragraph. There is
no full stop. In a right-to-left language, the full stop
should be at
the left end of the final line. In your web page, it's at the
right end.
I think you're in danger of creating something that looks
exotic to your
eyes, but is complete nonsense to your target audience. If
you're
putting this on the web, it's an important part of your
marketing, and
you need expert advice. An online forum of non-Arabic
speakers isn't the
best place to get it.
David Powers
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "Foundation PHP 5 for Flash" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/