Viewing and Printing Arabic characters using Pasta configuration.

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The below steps are required for viewing and printing Arabic characters  using Pasta utility

1-To enable the browser to print Arabic correctly, you will have to enable
Pasta printing.
To use Pasta please follow: Note 239196.1 PASTA 3.0 Release Information.

2-Change the driver type of the printer to be --Pasta Universal

3-In the pasta.cfg file (Take backup of the file first) : change the following
entity
%% For Western European (Latin-1) languages
[AMERICAN,CATALAN,GERMAN,DANISH,SPANISH,LATIN AMERICAN SPANISH,
FRENCH,CANADIAN
FRENCH,ENGLISH,ITALIAN,ICELANDIC,NORWEGIAN,DUTCH,PORTUGUESE,BRAZILIAN
PORTUGUESE,SWEDISH,FINNISH]

To:

%% For Western European (Latin-1) languages
[CATALAN,GERMAN,DANISH,SPANISH,LATIN AMERICAN SPANISH,FRENCH,CAN
ADIAN
FRENCH,ENGLISH,ITALIAN,ICELANDIC,NORWEGIAN,DUTCH,PORTUGUESE,BR
AZILIAN
PORTUGUESE,SWEDISH,FINNISH]

(Just remove AMERICAN)

Also
set direction=rtl instead of direction=default

and set: dolayout=n
doshaping=y

4- From the System Administrator responsibility
>Install >Viewer Options
ADD new record
File Format: 'Text'
Mime Type: 'apps/bidi'
Description: 'Pasta Viewer for bi-di'

5-Change profile 'Viewer: Application for Text' to be 'Pasta viewer for bi-
di' instead of 'Browser'

6-Apply Patch 3288588

7- In the .prt files
nls locale "arabic"
nls datastorageorder "logical"
nls contextuallayout "no"
nls contextualshaping "yes"

8-If you find the following Lines in the .prt files then remove them
REPORTS60_PRINTER_CODE_BEFORE=&5
export REPORTS60_PRINTER_CODE_BEFORE
REPORTS60_PRINTER_CODE_AFTER=&4
export REPORTS60_PRINTER_CODE_AFTER

9-According to Note 291791.1 Oracle Applications Concurrent Processing
Rollup Patch G the section of : Native Client Encoding in Report Viewer.Online
Report Review allows users to view the output of Concurrent Requests. The
Report Viewer is now able to honor the FND: Native Client Encoding profile
option. When enabled, the Report Viewer will convert the output file into the
character set specified in the FND: Native Client Encoding profile. To enable
this support, there is an Allow Native Client Encoding checkbox for each MIME type in the Viewer Options form.:

References:


 configure Arabic reports and pasta as per doc id:552977.1728077.1,839520.1

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