Your best discourse is to use a different mail reader - PINE ignores the
requirements for alternative viewers - and I have no problem reading the
English in which the postings are made.
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Support Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Patrick Corliss wrote:
> Hi Issam & All
>
> I'm having a problem which others may experience so I'm bringing it to the
> attention of the discussion group. Sorry if people think it's off topic for
> OpenSRS but it IS a list question.
>
> Are you aware that an Arabic Text Display Support box pops up from time to
> time when people access your email messages? That's fine for people with
> Arabic but I really have a a problem keeping that box under control. It
> jumps out at me anytime, comes back again when I hit the cancel button and
> hangs around in the background when I don't know it's there (and stops me
> from deleting emails). It's causing me to just delete your emails with even
> reading them.
>
> I've had some annoying incidents with Arabic software before. I don't know
> whether it's Arabic Windows or software conversion or just the data. For
> example, in one case, I had an spreadsheet set up on a Arabic version of
> Excel and although the data was supposed to be in English, all the dates
> were corrupted. As well, data often seems to get displayed right to left in
> Arabic-style.
>
> I have a lot to do with the Arabic community and have been told many similar
> stories by others with software designed to take account of Arabic-style
> text.
>
> Do others have a problem? And can we fix it?
>
> Thanks
> Patrick Corliss
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Issam W. Alameh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
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