Mark Davis wrote:
Let's take an example.
- The page is UTF-8.
- It contains a mixture of German, dingbats and Hindi text.
- My locale is de_DE.
From your description, it sounds like Modzilla works as follows:
- The locale maps (I'm guessing) to 8859-1
- 8859 maps to, say Helvetica.
Michael Kaplan wrote:
plus...
dumb question 1. Is Aramaic (which doesn't seem to have a 2 character
ISO
code) the same as Amharic (which does...AM)? If not, Amharic appears
to
be
a Semetic language too, is that written right-to-left too?
Amharic uses the Ethiopic script, and is
Ar 01:47 -0800 2000-12-07, scríobh Antoine Leca:
Urdu written in Nagari script is left-to-right? This is new to me...
No, Urdu written in Nagari script is Hindi.
There are a number of Muslim people that insist on naming it Urdu rather
than Hindi. Since both codes exist, and hence if you look
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:12:24PM -0800, James Kass wrote:
As for Chinese users searching for Chinese
strings, Japanese text will most probably be incomprehensible
regardless of font or mark-up.
That's true for pretty much every other pair of languages that use the
same script, though.
--
The application isn't "english", it's "an application". Properly done, it
should be internationalized and thus able to be an "Arabic
application" when serving Arabic pages and English when serving English
pages.
I totally agree. This is actually what I am trying to achieve and what I
was
Hi David,
Actually, I think that the directionality of the page *CONSIDERED AS A
WHOLE* is directly related to the locale of the user.
For example, I might look at a page that contains an very large result set
from a database query, presented as a table. The results would comprise
90% of the
Elaine,
You speak of the "standard Arabic script". You must add additional letters
to the standard Arabic script for languages such as Farsi and Urdu.
Carl
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For example, I might look at a page that contains an very large result set
from a database query, presented as a table. The results would comprise
90% of the text, let's say, of the document. If the results are all
Thanks! I appreciate the description. My fears were unfounded.
This states that *for each character* in the element, the implementation
is supposed to go down the list of fonts in the font-family property, to
find a font that exists and that contains a glyph for the current
character.
I
On 12/06/2000 12:19:00 PM "Michael \(michka\) Kaplan" wrote:
Aramaic has no native speakers
True, if what is meant is Ancient Aramaic. False if we mean Assyrian or
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic.
- Peter
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Peter Constable
I think you really need to give the user the option to override
the assumptions being made, as the degree of familiarity and experience
the user has with Hebrew and Arabic, and the purpose for using
the application will make a big difference.
For example, the case that you are suggesting goes
So, suppose all the data from the database is in Hebrew...and the user's
browser is set to Hebrew. You are saying that because we have some headings
in English; the entire page should be formatted LTR not RTL.
I have to disagree. The *content* of the page would be Hebrew. The
headings are
David Tooke wrote:
I don't think it should be based of the application. A Hebrew document
written by a user on an untranslated word processor is *still* a Hebrew
document.
I assume you mean "a word processor localized in English" rather than
"a word processor that can't do bidi". If the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi John,
I think we're saying the same thing: the language of the page is the base
directionality. If the application is localized into Hebrew, then the base
directionality is RTL.
Okay, good. In that case by "user locale" you mean "language of the (fixed
parts
Hi John,
I think we're saying the same thing: the language of the page is the base
directionality. If the application is localized into Hebrew, then the base
directionality is RTL.
Addison
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Michael Everson wrote:
I have no idea how I should encode such a font. Help?
According to a suitable legacy encoding, such as JIS X 0208,
Shift-JIS, or MacJapanese. What you will have is a font which
provides glyphs for only a few coded characters, but no matter.
It's just like an 8859-1
Localized Hebrew Excel has a button to flip the global direction of the screen
and presentation of the columns - RTL or LTR - and this preference is also
stored in the file.
The user can choose his default. It should not be determined from the locale,
when I open a new spreadsheet the
John,
I wasn't thinking about a,b,c so much as the headings in the results
table and the ordering of the data in the fields: country, state, name
Where I have seen Hebrew or Arabic tables the heading order
changes from LTR to RTL, and so you would want the data
returned from the query to be in
David Tooke wrote:
...And in response to Tex.
I would spend less time debating which is correct, and simply offer
a button on the UI to flip the ordering of the page.
Although we cannot have a option to store preferences for particular users,
we will allow users to change the locale during
Hello,
Aramaic is spoken in many countries today:Israel, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Iran,
Iraq, U.S., probably Azerbaijan, maybe further into Central Asia in some
pockets...but it's never called Aramaic, as far as I knowit's called
Surit, Kurdit, Turoyo, Assyrian, Mandaean,
Hello,
I am new to this mailing list. Hope it is appropriate to ask the following
question :
1. Any browser that I can used to view UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 unicode format
files ?
2. I am looking for some UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16 unicode format file.
Any web site which I can download the above files ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I put some japanese text up on the web
http://11digitboy.stormloader.com
and i think i did it right. Is the #n; format
correct where n is a unicode code in decimal? do
i set netscape to utf-8 to see it? what about msie?
For Netscape 6/Mozilla MSIE, you
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