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How do I code for Hebrew emails?

Anonymous
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‎10-04-2013 01:53 AM
‎10-04-2013 01:53 AM

How do I code for Hebrew emails?

Has anyone successfully sent a Hebrew language email and have it render in an email client Right to Left as intended?
Here's an example of what I'm trying to send using this code, but it is not working for us.


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html dir="rtl">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>An Example Hebre Email</title>
</head>
<body>
<p style="font-family:arial; font-size:13px;"><font color="#333333">{{lead.First Name:default=Sir/Madam}} היקר </font></p>
<p style="font-family:arial; font-size:13px;"><font color="#333333">אני מצפה לפגישתנו ומודה לך על זמנך היקר.</font></p>
<p style="font-family:arial; font-size:13px;"><font color="#333333">בברכה,</font></p>
</body>
</html>


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Anonymous
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‎10-04-2013 03:42 AM
‎10-04-2013 03:42 AM

Re: How do I code for Hebrew emails?

There is no special requirement to set right to left on Marketo. It is essentially a desktop setting. I am supporting EMEA region where we have a number of customers using Hebrew and Arabic successfully.

It is also important to be aware of character sets when importing lists: http://community.marketo.com/MarketoArticle?id=kA050000000L3GZCA0

Please review a previous post for details: http://community.marketo.com/MarketoDiscussionDetail?id=90650000000PK31AAG

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Anonymous
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‎10-04-2013 03:56 AM
‎10-04-2013 03:56 AM

Re: How do I code for Hebrew emails?

bgomes,

You mention that
  • The content is composed using the native character set.
  • The justification is set from right to left.
Please can you share with us the HTML that you use? You can strip out the bulk of your email template, I just want to see the coding behind it.

Also when I paste in Hebrew text (becomes left to right when I paste) into the subject line, will it render right to left on outlook in the middle eastern email clients?
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Anonymous
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‎10-04-2013 04:30 AM
‎10-04-2013 04:30 AM

Re: How do I code for Hebrew emails?

It is driven by locale settings. I did not set any special HTML, CSS or JavaScript.  

I can even use English and set my desktop to render from right to left.
Browsers, email clients, word processors and everything else will work that way. I can go as far as setting Japanese, from top to bottom.

Just to be clear, most applications are totally agnostic and will work according to the locale settings.
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Anonymous
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‎10-07-2013 06:42 AM
‎10-07-2013 06:42 AM

Re: How do I code for Hebrew emails?

bgomes,

I'm having this same problem working in Arabic, a right-to-left language. I have checked the encoding on my browser, and in Oulook and in the template. Everything is set to UTF-8.  

You seem to be saying that we have to set the OPERATING SYSTEM to Arabic in order for this to work.  Is that correct? 

I also send emails in English, German, French and Russian, often on the same day. Plus, forgive my ignorance if this isn't correct, but won't changing the locale also change the keyboard, the language used in dialog boxes, the date and time etc., and require a reboot each time?  

This doesn't really seem like an answer to the problem. 


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