Dear All, I have corel installed on two laptops. Both of these laptops have arabic support enabled via windows xp. I have been facing a very unusal problem, my problem is that one laptop writes digits in the Hindi numerical form (which are the digits that we use in the arabic writing), the other on doesnt, it only writes the Arabic numerical form (which are the digits used in the english langague). Both these computers have the same set of softwares on them. I have matched the settings for both on them in the control panel, and the font i use is the transparent arabic.
I have heard that there is a way to change the settings within corel, but i looked and couldnt find. I have faced this problem before on one of the desktop, and formatted the whole pc and reinstalled everything and now it works.
in short:
desktop one: installed xp, photoshop cs3, illustrator cs2, corel x3 and office 2007. works fine
desktop two: same as above, not working.
laptop one: same as above, working
laptop two: same as above, not working
in short again, my problem, i load corel to type (hindi digits) arabic numbers, i cant on two computers and can on the other two.
from what i have seen, the only difference between all the computers, since they were all formated by me, and had all the same software, that maybe the sequence on the programs i installed might have somehting to do with it. ie desktop one, installed corel before office or vice versa.
I have tried to search but with no luck. hope u can help
Hi Hubono, I have never heard of anything like that, so I don't know what to really tell you. It almost sounds like you have two different language versions of Windows XP installed on each computer. I cannot imagine why otherwise. Doesn't sound like a Corel or Adobe software issue. Only thing I can suggest would be to maybe reinstall windows, using the same disk on each if possible (but use their respective CD Keys for each)? Sorry I can't offer more assistance.
I'm not expert in typography or writing issues.
If I face such a problem, I will try the following steps. If this did not solve the problem, I would go back and undo all what I have done.
Load CorelDRAW and see what will happen.
I think there is no harm from checking on all the Arabic Code pages for someone uses Arabic language.
Until you find a solution, maybe you can use the 'Insert Symbol Character' (Ctrl+F11) in CorelDRAW:
(The 'Insert Character' docker appears if it is not already docked)
(All glyphs in the font appear)
If the font you use has the glyphs for the digits (Indian), you will find it after you choose appropriate Arabic 'Code page' in the same docker, maybe "UTF - 8" or "ANSI - Arabic".
Tell us how things turn out.