Nir Dagan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Summary: One may produce Hebrew pages with output in either ISO-8859-8 or
> ISO-8859-8-i, but SHOULD serve them as ISO-8859-8-i over the web.
>
> Strictly speaking ISO-8859-8 and ISO-8859-8-i
> are the same encoding. Namely, they assign identical bytes to the same
> characters.
>
> Howver due to historical reasons one should not use the notation
> ISO-8859-8
> for HTML documents over the WWW as many browsers assume that pages in that
> encoding are
> encoded using the "visual method" rather with Unicode's implicit
> directionality ("the logical method").
>
> As for generating HTML pages using XSLT or some other SGML/XML
> mechanism, one may configure the output encoding to be ISO-8859-8,
> even when the pages are written in the logical method.
> But they should be served via HTTP with the notation:
>
> Content-type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-8-i
>
> Hope this clarifies the issue.
> Please, do not hesitate to ask for more clrafications, if needed.
>
> Nir.....So we should use iso-8859-8 but write iso-8859-8-i in the html files .. Thanks for clearing that up for me !!! Now we can start the translation. Gabor/anyone, I still need some DSSSL expert to help me with the "dir=rtl/align=right" problem ... so if you know someone like that - just send me his email. Regards Shlomi Loubaton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
