Crystal Reports Arabic Characters Issue

Question

I have purchased Crystal Reports 2013 with Arabic enabled. The problem is that fields from the database which contain Arabic characters are not being displayed properly. They are merely showing as '?????' characters instead.

I have tried changing the font but with no success. I have Win 8.1 Pro and SQL Server 2012.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

How-to-Export-Crystal-Report-in-Regional-Language

Here is good example how to resolve it.

Answer 2

Ok so i solved the problem. Eventhough I have Arabic enabled on my win 8.1 pro, it seems that CR isn't recognizing arabic Unicode characters. I simply changed windows locale to Arabic and it works like a charm. Thanks for all who helped troubleshoot this problem, sherlock holmes style. :)