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Will renderpdf activity support arabic locale

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Former Community Member

hi,

i have an Arabic pdf form,Am able to key-in  fieldsin Arabic and complete the form in workspace.
When it goes to next user for aprroval..(am using a render pdf activity in workflow).the render pdf activity converts the fields in pdf to english.
how can i retain the arabic font in the pdf? Also the data is not entered in the DB.

please help

Thanks,

Lissa

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See the RenderPDFForm's Input > PDF Form Render Options properties. The Character Set and Locale properties probably need to be set. I don't see Arabaic as a supported locale though....

http://livedocs.adobe.com/livecycle/8.2/wb_help/000614.html

scott

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Hi Scott,

Thanks for your suggestion.

Without setting locale it worked.But am not able to insert arabic values to DB. Can u please help me in localizing the MYSQL.

Thanks,

Lissa

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I've never done this but you probably need to set the locale on MySQL or add the character set:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/internationalization-localization.html

sorry I can't help more.

scott