Recently, I developed a SmartDevice application using .NET Compact Framework 3.5 Windows Mobile 5 SDK. Customer wanted me to develop the application with Persian language support so I started normally and used Persian because I didn’t feel anything bad. After I wanted to deploy it for tests, I realized that Windows Mobile 5 doesn’t support Arabic/Persian language by default! I also understood that Windows Mobile 5 does not support some specific SQL collations such as “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1256_CS_AS” because it hasn’t that kind of encoding until you install a specific encoder for it.

After some researches, I found a Pocket PC software name Arabizer which enables Windows Mobile to support Arabic language and it’s free to try. But as you may know, there are some specific characters in Persian language that Arabic doesn’t have.

I went through forums and found out that there is a company which had been developed an application based on Arabizer which adds Persian characters to it. This application is monetary but you will need it when want to develop a Persian application in Windows Mobile environment.

Because it was very difficult for me to find such an application, I decided to upload it here so you can download and have a free trial and I’m sure you’ll be definitely buying it if you want to develop an Arabic/Persian language SmartDevice application. Click here to download Arabizer.

With IMAGiNET Pocket Arabizer, you can Enter, Edit, and View Arabic Data inside Microsoft Applications, not only using an Arabic Soft Keyboard, but also using Arabic Handwriting character Recognition. You also get Prayer Times, Hijri Calendar and Arabic English bidirectional dictionary.

You can also download iPhone version if you want Arabic/Persian language support on iPhone.

Note: For those who want to add Persian language support to Arabizer I have to say that the name of that company is Part Asia.