Multilingual support - Arabic language help file

Hi,
I have to produce a help file (of probably close to 1000 topics) that must get translated into Arabic. Development wants a chm file. We have to send the file out to a 3rd-party translation house. I am pretty much locked into RoboHelp 7 for Word as an upgrade is not on the table.
Is there some specific arabic character set I have to use to get the index and TOC to generate in arabic?
Is there some setting or override so that numbered lists show up with the number on the right nargin (since Arabic is read right-to-left)? Word flips the list markers properly, but in the test CHM file we generated today, it appears on the left.
Would multiple-language support work more easily in a different output format? If so, which one?
ANY assistance will be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
Wendy

Hi Wendy,
Sadly, RoboHelp is not the tool to use for right-to-left conversions or help projects. A decision was made and has not yet been changed that bi-directional languages are simply too costly to implement against the expected return. I live in Israel and would love to use RoboHelp for Hebrew - I actually had a funny discussion with the development and sales teams on this one time (I've tried many times) in which I said - look, forget Israel - we're really small, but what about all the Arab countries - trust me, there are a lot of them.
Bottom line - you can't accomplish this in RoboHelp without MAJOR luck and hacking. Other tools that DO allow you to produce help in Hebrew and/or Arabic are: Webworks, AuthorIT, Flare, and I believe Doc2Help...in other words - many competitors.
I would love to work with Adobe to help bring this functionality to RoboHelp - and have offered. I hope some day they will make a marketing decision to implement this functionality.
Sorry,
Paula
Paula R. Stern
CEO, WritePoint Ltd.
www.writepoint.com
Adobe Community Professional / eHelp RoboHelp MVP / Macromedia Team Member / RoboGURU

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