>
> What is/was your alternative? Did you communicate in English? Did you
> write hebrew in a latin transcription from left to right? Is it not
> possible to use an 8bit codepage (DOS or ISO) to produce hebrew text?
> And is it not possible to get this converted, as after all HTML is
> nothing else than text either?
>
> I have not had the opportunity to test your hebrew fonts for
> Arachne, yet. But I all the time thought, they would help me to read
> 8bit HTML text. Am I wrong?
Hebrew in general is implemented by replacing the "international"
area of the ASCII table with hebrew fonts. Basicly, my hebrew APM
for arachne simple has hebrew fonts in that space.
Since hebrew is written from the right to the left, sites have
always written everything backword in purpose. However, Microsoft
have recently included in IE the ability to reverse the order
of the characters in a sentence, by this allowing webmasters
to write normally instead of having to flip everything.
This, unfortunatly, means that only IE can read sites that use
this method. And just about all the big and new sites are now
using this system, rendering Netscape and alternative browsers
"obselete", as a Microsoft spokesman putted it in the news.
This, unfortunatly, includes Arachne as well. I talked with Michael
and he said that implementing this ability is quite simple. Only
problem is to find out how IE knows when to flip and when not to.
MS support wanted 40NIS per hour for telling me which tag they used.
(about 10 USD). Webmaster that I asked just responded with something
like "Dunno. I just use the option in FrontPage and Word."
So as it stands i'm still looking for the answer. :)
Re: 8-bit ASCII, I dont know exactly what you mean, but I did
put the hebrew fonts in the System font as well. Which should allow
you to read hebrew ASCII files (plain text) as well.
Just remember that by putting hebrew support you're giving up over
some of the international simbols support..
