title: Arabic text messages in matlab
body: <p>When I show any message dialogue like warning dialogue or help dialogue using Arabic text as the message it's not shown in a proper way.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Examples</strong>:</p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p>English:</p>
  
  <pre><code>helpdlg('Hello World !!');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wR6ei.png" alt="Hello world message"></p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p>Arabic:</p>
  
  <pre><code>helpdlg('أهلا أيها العالم');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/wqewh.png" alt="Ahlan message"></p>
  
  <hr>
  
  <p>My thoughts goes to that it's character-encoding problem, I really don't know for sure !  </p>
  
  <p>I've tried to use different font like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>text(0.6,0.5,'أهلا و سهلا','fontname','david','rotation',180,'fontsize',50,'color','r');
  text(0.6,0.5,'أهلا و سهلا','fontname','arial','rotation',180,'fontsize',50,'color','r');
  text(0.6,0.5,'أهلا و سهلا','fontname','Arabic Typesetting','rotation',0,'fontsize',50,'color','r');
  text(0.6,0.5,'أهلا و سهلا','fontname','Courier','rotation',0,'fontsize',50,'color','r');
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And the problem still not solved.</p>
  
  <p><strong>The question is,</strong> How can Matlab dialogue messages appear in <strong>Arabic</strong> ?</p>