Sunday, July 19, 2009 11:53 PM
Mohamed Meligy
Reading Arabic & Unicode Tweets in TweetDeck
The reason I’m writing this is because every other day I see someone twitter statuses like: “TweetDeck does not support Arabic”, “Cannot view Arabic tweets in TweetDeck” or similar notes, so that I can just guide people to this post rather than write the same tweet reply!
TweetDeck supports Arabic and other complex script languages. I guess any Unicode language. It’s just not enabled by default.
A picture is worth 210 words. Here is what you need to enable it:
Yet, one thing I don’t understand is: why it’s not the default in TweetDeck ???
N.B.
If you wonder why I care so much; this is because I believe TweetDeck is the best twitter client ever.
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