How can I view Arabic/Persian numbers in a HTML page with strict doctype?
I have an HTML page that is right-to-left. When I don't use any doctype, my numbers are in Arabic/Persian, but when I use strict mode they turn to English.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Final//EN">
Before adding doctype:
After adding doctype:
also I added these meta tags to my page:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="fa" />
So how can I view Arabic numbers in a page with strict doctype (in IE because Firefox doesn't show Arabic numbers anyway)?
Answer
here is a little javascript code that converts a 1234 string to ١٢٣٤ string
var map =
[
"&\#1632;","&\#1633;","&\#1634;","&\#1635;","&\#1636;",
"&\#1637;","&\#1638;","&\#1639;","&\#1640;","&\#1641;"
];
function getArabicNumbers(str)
{
var newStr = "";
str = String(str);
for(i=0; i<str.length; i++)
{
newStr += map[parseInt(str.charAt(i))];
}
return newStr;
}