How to Set up Pasta to see Oracle Standard Report output in Arabic

Output of R12 standard reports were not coming in Arabic so see the below action plan.

1- Query for the profile : %Encoding% and check the profiles :
FND: NATIVE CLIENT ENCODING ---set the Arabic Characterset
ICX: Client IANA Encoding

2- Please add the line
Text , apps/bidi , pasta viewer for text
that we have added in the test under the Install >> Viewer options

3- Please modify the pasta.cfg file under $FND_TOP/resource
make the direction=rtl
and the dolayout=n

4- In the PSTLL.prt, L.prt files under $FND_TOP/reports
add the 4 lines :

nls locale "arabic"
nls datastorageorder "logical"
nls contextuallayout "no"
nls contextualshaping "yes"

5- Query for the profile : %Viewer% and check the profiles :
Make the profile : Viewer: Application for Text to be null
Viewer: Text to be Browser

6- Bounce the concurrent managers , exit the application and login and retest.


For detail please see Metalink ID # 356501.1