> There's a difference in the case of C++ standard and web > standards: Writing non-standard C++ code only produces compile-time > problems, but if you happen to compile the code, it works correctly > (or supposed to do so).
Well, that's not exactly so. Some non-conformant behavior tend to generate (maybe subtle) runtime behavior differences. But I see what your point here is. > But it's quite a different case in web. > 30-40 percent is low enough to get ignored, counting that the other > way you are sacrificing the other 60-70% for not being able to find > the document by searching in Google. And note that even with Win9x > and a recent IE, and updated fonts, there's no problem. I'd definitely do so if the Google search problem couldn't be solved. But I've been using a method I've mentioned in my other post to solve that problem as well. This was the best way of having the best of the two worlds that I could think of, but I'm wide open for suggestions/improvements to this idea. > About using HTML entities, no matter what the encoding of the page is, > HTML entities generate Unicode characters. They do on most browsers, but browsers are not required to do so. Consider a browser which can't handle UTF-8 (well, or at all). > It's quite common to see > people exporting Persian documents in MS Word, and get an HTML page > encoded in MS Arabic encoding, with Persian Yeh and Keh encoded in > HTML entities. Yes, and that will make their document even more difficult for search engines to index. And of course, I'd debate that using CP1256/ISO-8859-6 is not suitable for Persian documents, but that's another story perhaps. > PS. BTW, I just found that using Harakat (kasre, fathe, ...) also > prevent a hit in Google search :(. That's quite expected, but perhaps > I should reconsider my habbit of putting those tiny marks everywhere. That's another sad fact. I really think that Google must seriously consider implementing some such details on their indexing process. That's also one of the things that AriaSearch.com handles. --- Hmmm, now that we're here, how about gathering some volunteers who can work with Google to fix some of these problems? In the past, I've contacted Google on a number of occassions about small problems in their services, and they seemed quite willing to fix them. Maybe we would hopefully have a more Persian-friendly Google in the future this way. If you feel that this is a good idea, I'd be pleased to take part in that team. Comments? ------------- Ehsan Akhgari Farda Technology (http://www.farda-tech.com/) List Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ WWW: http://www.beginthread.com/Ehsan ] _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
