On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Ron Artstein wrote: > > My Hebrew lecture is complete (for now). Please proofread it and suggest > > corrections. It is available at http://alon.wox.org/hebrewlec/ > > The page is very good. A few minor clarifications/corrections: > > Does ISO-10646-1 support the correct rendering of nikud? I honestly > don't know. I'm not sure, but I think yes.
> "most web pages, emails etc. are in ISO-8859-8": I think that the > majority of Hebrew users still work with Windows, and they tend to > send stuff in windows-1255 encoding. It's almost the same, but I added this. > Culmus: give credit to their creator. Added. > I think Frank-Ruehl (under "culmus") is usually spelled with > a yod in Hebrew; this is a general convention regarding the > pronunciation/transliteration of German ue/u-umlaut, hence > Muenchen > minkhen etc. Also under "windows fonts". Fixed. > Last line under culmus: "tokhna" is used for "ha-tokhen shela" (?). > This is confusing, since on this kind of page you expect it to mean > "software" (I had to read the sentence twice). That's what happens when you do global search&replace to fix spelling... > Bidi: a brief explanation of the complications of implicit bidi and > how a bidi algorithm works could be useful. The assertion that > "certain programs determine directionality according to the first > directional character in a paragraph" assumes that people know what > a directional character means---I wouldn't count on that. I think I'll explain this verbally. > I also suggest adding a paragraph on how to manually change a > browser's encoding when it fails to automatically recognize the > encoding of a web page. It may not be specific to "Hebrew in > Linux", but it would be useful to a lot of people :-) I think this is should be part of the knowledge people already have, as this is a problem for MSIE users under Windows as much as it is for Mozilla users under Linux. Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 GPG public key at http://alon.wox.org/pubkey.txt Key fingerprint = A670 6C81 19D3 3773 3627 DE14 B44A 50A3 FE06 7F24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=[ Random Fortune ]=- If only you had a personality instead of an attitude. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
