Does Knack Support the Hebrew Language?

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I am interested in creating a Knack app that will help coordinate volunteer efforts working towards helping the survivors of the horrendous terrorist attacks in Israel. The forms and reports will need to be in the Hebrew language. Does anyone know if Knack supports the Hebrew language? This would require supporting the UTF-8 font set as well as supporting RTL (Right-To-Left) documents/forms layout and RTL text writing direction.

Any experienced Knack developers with experience in developing Knack applications in Hebrew, please contact me via merkeltech@gmail.com .

Many Thanks,
David

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Checkout the below :point_down:

This may be a help?

Google Translate - Knack Database

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Thank you Carl - I will test it tomorrow!

Best Regards,

David

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Please specify the code that needs to be added. Does it have to be added on every page, or does it persist across pages? As Knack is an SPA, it should persist, right?

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When I do that, all I get is:

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I tried it with the following more complete code and got the same kind of thing:

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@Stephen4 - It appears that Google has made some changes, as this method of using Google Translate is no longer effective. However, I have found that you can utilise the Google Translate plugin from the Chrome Web Store. I hope this helps you move forward.

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Carl, thank you very much for this response. I see that you are a very active and proactive expert in the community. However, I am sure you understand that what you are showing in this video is a solution to a very different problem. It’s not about me translating sites in my browser. It’s about thousands of users all over the world automatically seeing my app’s prompts and field names and fixed text in their language. Multi-language is a critical feature in our global, internet-based world. I have seen other information on this subject. It would be great to have an continuously updated summary of techniques that work in Knack in the Knowledge base, and even greater for Knack to provide a native framework for this, something similar to WordPress plugin WPML, or the way JotForm provides for multi-language presentation of a form. We are global and we really need this.

P.S. - are you sure that Google made the change? The use of a Rich Text field to support HTML code of this kind might have been deprecated in Knack. I was surprised that it might work, and not so surprised that it did not.

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I apologise for my misunderstanding. The original video I did was specifically about translating the live app pages. You may be correct that the change was at Knacks end not Googles :thinking: