Hi,
I have heard that with Arachne the text in a page can be spoken out loud,
would
anyone care to explain this to me? and why hasn't it been implemented in
any other
prominent web browsers?
At 09:59 PM 9/27/00 +0300, you wrote:
>Hi Christof,
>
>some my objections ;-) ...
>
>On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 23:23:33 Christof Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> Hello, Geoff,
>> now finally on editing national characters.
>> My comment has two parts.
>
>> 1. Do not use Arachne for email...
>> - ----------------------------------
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>Use Arachne only !!! Joke, of course. BTW, with Arachne I can get/listen
>Voice-Mail.
>
>Arachne is very reliable as mailer (if works ;-). It's my prefered mailer,
>BTW. Have many times got/sent messages about 3-5 MB.
>
>>> e-mails from Russia, and viewing most Russian WWW pages (although I have
>>> seen some that clearly use a different character set.
>
>> If you are not just playing with mail, but produce and read big
>> quantities of text, I would recommend to you applications which are
>> made for this rather than Arachne. Running under DOS they
>> naturally use DOS codepages (either KOI8-R or CP866) and your
> ~~~~~~Is not DOS codepage but
>UNIX!
>
>> dual English-Russian keyboard configuration. This does not matter, as
>> far as the output is okay. According to international mail standards
>> the outgoing mail files (in Arachne *.TBS) must not contain
>> 8Bit code at all - neither DOS nor WWW character sets, but the
>> 8bit characters encoded into 7bit.
>
>8-O Very weak point indeed...
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>> I personally prefer Pegasus Mail that has a fantastic support for
>> national characters in MIME (Russian mail will be displayed in
>> cyrillic, if you set the codepage to CP 866. When a West or Central
>> European codepage is selected, the Russian text is transcribed to
>> English or Czech alphabet. The program is free, international
>> character sets are included in a separate package. Using Arachne as a
>> gateway allows viewing incoming mail in Arachne, first. If they are
>> not readable here, in Pegasus, they certainly will be.
>
>I prefer Arachne ;-). BTW, being this summer on conference in Novosibirsk
>I've meet two Czech academicians from some Praha uni (one from them was
>in age of Michal Polak). So both haven't hear about Arachne at all !!!
>
>But your both advices about printing and converting are very sound.
>Really good work.
>
>Regards,
>
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