copying Arabic into Word document on Mac

[huanzuiju]

I am trying to copy and paste an Arabic word from the web into a
multi-lingual Word document on my Mac but am having terrible trouble.
It always comes out either backwards (left-right) or with the letters
not correctly joined up (an Algerian colleague tells me). I have tried
making the web page I am copying from into a PDF first, but doesn't
help.
Any advice greatly appreciated.

Michael

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I am trying to copy and paste an Arabic word from the web into a
multi-lingual Word document on my Mac but am having terrible trouble.
It always comes out either backwards (left-right) or with the letters
not correctly joined up (an Algerian colleague tells me).

Indeed... Only Word 2004 properly supports Unicode to let the letters
display as they should, but even then: because of earlier limitations in
the System tools WOrd uses, Word is not capable of using right-to-left.
You'll have to use another application (Mellel will do it, probably
Nisus Writer Express too).

Corentin