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On 1 Aug 2007, at 09:59, Miles Blomfield wrote:

> anyone here got any experience of building a website in Arabic.  
> need to know
> the pitfalls if there are any obvious or non-obvious ones.

Main issue is that the text flows right to left.  This may not be an  
issue for simple sites, but beware when doing CMS or database stuff.   
We did a pitch for a large Arabic airline a few years ago and it  
wasn't too bad.  We use Plone, we can handle arabic and hebrew (both  
right-to-left languages) fine.  Actual issue for us was we had no  
idea what we produced actually said!  If you need any more help with  
it give me a shout.

-Matt

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