I am finding an issue with the current DropDownList and ListBox ASP.NET Web
Controls.
I had a system set up for Arabic and a string that I put into a drop down
had a number. The letters were being displayed in Arabic but the numbers were
Latin. In other parts of my app ,Arabic numerals would appear as expected.
I found an MSDN link to the following web page that mentioned there was an
issue with the current DropDownList and ListBox ASP.NET Web Controls i.e.
they currently only support Latin numerals.
The link is:-
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbconWebFormsControlsInBi-DirectionalApplications.asp

Is there any workaround for this or will this issue be fixed soon?
Thanks in advance for any help
Cheers

Hi John,
unfortunately this is a limitation of the current Internet Explorer, you
can try this out by just creating an HTML page with a dropdown box (also
mentioned here:
http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/msdn/arabicsupp.aspx#25). I tried it
with Internet Explorer7 Beta1 and the issue is still there. I will try to
contact the Internet Explorer team to see if this is planned to be fixed.

Thanks
Achim Ruopp

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