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Static text string or data selection to be converted.

encoding

String identifying the original encoding or reference to a style defined in the document that identifies the original encoding.

reversedmapping

Boolean specifying whether the text to be converted should be mapped in regular or reversed order. Possible values are true

(reversed mapping) and false (no reversed mapping). In the case of preformated Arabic data, this argument should be set to

false.

Supported Encodings

The following Arabic original encodings are supported for the conversion process:

AL-ARABI ASMO-708 ASMO-708-UNIX IBM-864 ISO-8859-6 (Arabic)

ASMO-449+ ASMO-708+ HP-ARABIC8 IRAN SYSTEM MS-CP-1256

Code Sample Examples

Example 1 illustrates a variable text string that is taken from the data, converted from the MS-CP-1256 encoding to UTF8 and

then displayed from the insertion point to the right. Example 2 illustrates the same variable text string, but this time it is con-

verted from the encoding specified in the style named “MyArabEncoding” to UTF8.

Example 1

setlinewidth(0.007)

moveto(0,0)

rlineto(&width,0)

rlineto(0,&height)

rlineto(neg(&width),0)

rlineto(0,neg(&height))

closepath()

stroke()

moveto(&width/2,&height/2)

SetStyleExt(&Style1,12.0000,0,[100],100)

showUTF8right(maputf8(@(2,15,35), 'MS-CP-1256', False),'normal')

Example 2

setlinewidth(0.007)

moveto(0,0)

rlineto(&width,0)