Copy/paste Arabic doesn't work well

Question

On http://tanzil.net/#19:3, if you copy the first word of the first line to the right including the "(1)" and then paste it in the WordPress editor, you'll see that the "(1)" piece is split (left parenthesis moves to the beginning of the sentence for some reason). This occurs either on computers with Arabic language installed and those without.

Why and how to fix this problem ?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 03 '12 at 18:30

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Probably because the reading order is set to Left to Right by default.

Before

Before

Right-click and select Right to left Reading order:

RTL

After

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answered Oct 03 '12 at 18:30

Karan

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 26 '13 at 14:08

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Just follow this :

Copy and paste the arabic text into from word or text document to ADOBE Illustrator.
Save the illustrator document as in .EPS format.
Open indesign and place the .EPS document into the place you want.

Since indesign can't handle arabic text issue by itself, this method will help many designers.

edited Sep 26 '13 at 14:08

John Bensin

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answered Sep 26 '13 at 12:46

Dileesha Amarasena

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Copy/paste Arabic doesn't work well

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