Jeremy Quinn wrote:
Does utf-8 cover Arabic?
Yes. UTF-8 covers all of Unicode. Look the character codes up in the Unicode character index http://www.unicode.org/charts/charindex.html You can either use an Unicode-aware editor which allows you to enter arabic directly, or use character references with any text or XML editor.
Are there different 'xml:lang' specifiers for different forms of Arabic?
It should not be necesary to specify xml:lang, unless some application *explicitely* requires it.
Do you have to do anything special in the generated HTML to reverse the text-flow?
It's a task for the browser to do the correct thing. Mozilla/Netscape is known to work. IEx 5.5/6.0 ought to work too, but I never tried myself. Note that the client machine needs to have arabic or reasonably complete Unicode fonts installed, and the browser must know about them. This can be tricky for Unix platforms. Win2k, WinXP and recent Linux releases work; WinME, WinNT don't work out of the box. J.Pietschmann --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
