On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 20:44, Arie Folger wrote:
> Has anybody ever managed to run Bar Ilan's Responsa project cd with wine?
> Does anybody have information on whether they use a non standard encoding as 
> an additional (lame?) copy protection? I used wvHtml to read a Word file with 
> text pasted from said CD, and have only gibberish, despite having a number of 
> unicode fonts.
> 
> Finally, utf-8 works in html 4.0, but tell me, don't the fonts have to have a 
> special line in fonts.dir that includes utf8 or another unicode encoding in 
> order to be used to display unicode douments in, say, konqueror 2.2x?

For example, if you wish to display Unicode documents whose characters
aren't all found in iso8859-8 (e.g. Hebrew and Arabic mixed text),
you'll need an iso10646-1 font (you could use iso8859-8, but the Arabic
would be displayed as question marks). With TrueType fonts on XF4, you
can simply add another line to 'fonts.dir' with the desired encoding and
it'll be available to all applications.

Otherwise, if it's a Unicode document but all it has is Hebrew
characters, you could view it with an iso8859-8 font as well.

(With KDE3 though it'll all change - if you have an iso8859-8 font and
an iso8859-6 font, but no iso10646-1 font -- it'll manage to display
both Hebrew (with the iso8859-8 font) and Arabic (iso8859-6)
simulaneously.)



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