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Claris FileMaker Pro Specific Features

FileMaker is fully enabled to work efficiently in your language.

Specific Features for Middle Eastern, Indian and Thai languages

Specific Features for Central and East European languages

Specific features for Middle Eastern, North African, Indian and Thai languages

FileMaker Pro comes with enhanced options for entering, displaying and layout out Middle Eastern, North African, Indian and Thai texts.

Layout of right-to-left content

Choose the layout of your right-to-left content to properly display.

FileMaker Pro offers you the possibility to have a mirror image of your layout to converts your layout from left-to-right to right-to-left.

Character and paragraph direction

Manage the direction of your paragraph to properly display right-to-left texts (in Arabic or Hebrew).

FileMaker automatically calculates the default character direction according to the language/script of the character, the paragraph direction as well as the surrounding characters.

You can also use and mix different digits within your app: roman and native.

Diacritics & ligatures

FileMaker Pro includes special settings to preserve ligatures and diacritics.

The diacritics are properly placed over the consonants (both horizontally and vertically) and the ligatures are correctly rendered. 

Sorting - Search/Find

FileMaker Pro allows you to sort, search and find Middle Eastern and Indian text.

  • For the Middle East: Arabic, Hebrew and other languages such as Farsi
    Note: for better results, search your data without diacritics.
  • For India: Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Panjabi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam
  • For Asia: Thai, Vietnamese

Spell checking

FileMaker Pro also includes the support of Hunspell tool for the following languages:

  • Arabic
  • Hebrew
  • Thai
  • Urdu Pakistan
Specific features for Central European languages

FileMaker Pro comes with enhanced options for entering and displaying Central and East European texts.

Localized user interface

FileMaker Pro localized versions are available in Czech, Polish, Russian and Turkish (user interface and templates) to work in your environment.

Web Direct is available in Czech, Polish, Turkish and Russian interface to easily publish your database on the Web.

Example in Czech

Sorting - Search/Find

FileMaker Pro allows you to sort, search and find Central and East European text.

Spell checking

FileMaker Pro also includes the support of Hunspell tool for the many languages.

Available language for sorting - search/find and spell checking:

  • Bulgarian
  • Croatian
  • Czech
  • Estonian
  • Greek
  • Hungarian
  • Latvian
  • Lithuanian
  • Polish
  • Romanian
  • Russian
  • Serbian
  • Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin)
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian