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>>Let me go back to the basics. I have Windows XP SP2 >>with Arabic IME as my working environment. I created a >>deck with the fronts for English, having >>Arial(Western) and English keyboard as default, and >>with the backs for Arabic, having Arial(Arabic) and >>Arabic keyboard as default. The Arial is Windows' own >>Arial, nothing fancy. I entered a few flashcards, >>saved the deck, opened it again. Arabic side has all >>nice Arabic characters. But when I try to import the >>cards as a text file, I get all question marks for >>Arabic characters. As far as I see, I have done >>nothing Unicode, so how did it creep in? > >This happens because Windows 2k / XP forces >applications to save data using the Arabic section of >Unicode. If an application is not Unicode-enabled but >is 'legacy' (ANSI-based) software, ??????? characters >appear instead of non-Western characters when you >reload the file. > >VTrain 4.5 is not Unicode-enabled, since we wanted to >keep it working with Windows 95 / 98 / ME users. ><b>VTrain 5.0</B> will be released in two flavors: ><b>Unicode-enabled (for Win 2k / XP)</b> and not >Unicode-enabled for older operation systems. > > >>Being able to import to a standard format, such as a >>text file is a must for me, for maximum compatibility >>and backup issues. But, since WindowsXP apparently >>handles so many things in Unicode, it seems to me that >>it would not be possible to export cards with Arabic >>characters as a text file without specifying an >>encoding scheme, not necessarily Unicode, but still an >>encoding. > >VTrain 5.0 will incorporate a <b>rich-text import >facility</b> which will be compatible with Unicode. >For information about when it is possible for the user >to specify an encoding scheme, see the next message in >this thread.

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