Posted by Sherm Pendley on 06/22/07 21:03

tobes <tobin@tobinharris.com> writes:

> I'm not entirely sure why the client wants people to enter data in
> English and read in Arabic. They've got several questionnaire
> applications and they've had those developed in a similar way.

I can imagine such a thing would be useful as a quiz in a foreign language
class. The questions might be in the students' native language to ensure
that they understand them, but the answers expected in the foreign language
because that's what is being tested.

> But yes, based on what you've said it does seem that the server side
> checking would be the only "real" way of seeing if input is typed in
> the correct character set at least. I think I can avoid this though,
> and convince the cleint to handle this by just *asking* users to enter
> details in English, we'll see!

Have you considered doing an English-language spell check on the submit-
ted text? It won't be 100% obviously, but it doesn't need to be perfect;
even a mere 20% correct spelling would show that the text is at least an
attempt at English.

sherm--

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