problem with urdu?

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hi everybody

i got this assignment, an ad in 4 versions - danish, english, urdu and thai. i haven't even tried thai yet, but have the following problem with urdu:

when i copy the text from the original, and paste it into illustrator or indesign, the order of letters i reversed? in the original, something resembling a g is on the right hand side of the sentence. pasted into indesign, the same letter suddenly is on the left? the letters themselv are not mirrored, just their order.

since i obviously can't read urdu, and i'm supposed to print 5000 copies of the finished product, i'd like to be sure i got it right...

anyone got any experience with that? or can actually read urdu?

http://www.hansler.dk/img/text.gif

last but not least i do not know if this even is urdu, or some other language, but i was told it is ;-)

thanks in advance,

hansler

[Samakimoto Graphics]

That's one hell of an assignment...

Have you tried translation sites?

[panzer]

find an urdu friend :)

[atif.ali]

Your posted text is certainly in reverse order...perhaps you can start by telling me what text you are actually trying to produce...are you still trying to do this?

[urstwile]

I don't know urdu, but is it one of the languages where text is read from right to left, instead of left to right? I think I remember reading that for those types of languages, you actually have to have a version of InDesign that is native to that style of language, like an Arabic version, otherwise, it won't work. I could be remembering that wrong, but I'm pretty sure I remember reading about it.

Edit: Doh! Didn't see that this was an old thread. :o

[budafist]

You have to hire a translator!

You couldn't possibly do this relying on advice from people on the web (who have no accountability) and/or a translation programme.

Oh crap, this is an old thread. I hope they did hire someone to do this...