At 10:57 +0430 11.8.2002, Aryan Ameri wrote: >He is running Mac OS X 10.1 on a Power G4 machine. He first asked me why is >it that although he had enabled UNICODE on OS X, and UNICODE is also enabled >in his browsers ( He told me he had tried IE and Mozilla ), still he is not
Notice that Mac OS X does not yet support right-to-left scripts. That is reported for the upcoming version, 10.2. Because it does use Unicode, you may still be able to read Arabic (or Persian) sites in some browsers, but there will not be proper support for input and editing before 10.2. Incidentally, Microsoft's "never Arabic" was made I believe for Office never supporting Worldscript; you can in fact read Unicode Arabic in IE 5.0 already under OS 9 (but not 8859-6 or cp1256). >>Now I need to find a way to convert the text into editable format. >>I have many >>programs such as Pagemaker 6.5 ME, Indesign 1.5 ME, Nisus 6.o, Word 6.0 and >>non of them are able to convert the text or I don't have the right font. Nisus does not have an OS X version; you have to run it in Classic (to which you can add the Arabic and Persian resources from the 9.2 install disks, you then get normal Persian support, but in that environment only). Word 6 he can forget, but even newer versions fall under the Microsoft "we don't care about you" statement mentioned. What will be possible with Office X under OS X 10.2 remains to be seen when the latter is out. I believe the two DTP programs are also Classic programs, like Nisus, and can like them be run with Persian / Arabic in the Classic environment. (I have not myself yet moved to OS X, so cannot help with Mozilla/Cooca - Nisus/Classic transfers and what problems that may cause, but there are very knowledgeable people on the Nisus list <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who no doubt have info on that.) Knut S. _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
