How to display numbers in Arabic language?

[jonjonsson]

@hesam.tajbakhsh

I have same problem and when I try to use this code I got an Error that says “attempt to call global 'utf8_decode” (a nil value). What should I do?

You need the UTF-8 decode function as well: http://pastebin.com/t2aQpMdd

[hesam.tajbakhsh]

@alzaabi98

Jon,

Thanks Man for your help , it works using the following

[lua]
local function numbersToArabic(numberString)
       
        local numberString = tostring(numberString)
        local replacements = {[“0”] = "Ù ",[“1”] = “Ù¡”, [“2”] = “Ù¢”, [“3”] = “Ù£”,[“4”] = “Ù¤”,[“5”] = “Ù¥”,[“6”] = “Ù¦”,[“7”] = “Ù§”,[“8”] = “Ù¨”,[“9”] = “Ù©”}
        return utf8_decode(string.gsub (numberString, “%d”, function (str) return replacements [str] or str end))
       
end

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ToArabicNum=numbersToArabic(“0123456789”)
local test = display.newText(ToArabicNum, 0, 0, native.systemFont, 55)
[/lua]

I have one question just to understand the concept for the conversion. What is the difference between the coding we used from the website you provided (http://www.cafewebmaster.com/online_tools/utf8_encode ) and the one I found (http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl).

in your website number 1 in arabic is encoding as “Ù¡”    whereas in the second website it is encoded as “U+0661” see the picture below for arabic encoding , when i used these encodes with functions you prvoided it didnt work…
 

I have same problem and when I try to use this code I got an Error that says “attempt to call global 'utf8_decode” (a nil value). What should I do?

[jonjonsson]

@hesam.tajbakhsh

I have same problem and when I try to use this code I got an Error that says “attempt to call global 'utf8_decode” (a nil value). What should I do?

You need the UTF-8 decode function as well: http://pastebin.com/t2aQpMdd