On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Instructions out of your predicament (for future note):
A. Copy the text into the clipboard.
B. Run LC_CTYPE=en_US kedit (or whatever other editor that
supports clipboard).
C. Paste the text there, and save it.
D. Run LC_CTYPE=he_UL kedit file
With UTF-8 you ... reduce to (almost) zero the chance the site
will be viewed with a wrong encoding.
Oh yeah?
Just yesterday I ran into a page that had what looked at first to
be unrecognized windows-1255 or iso-8859-8 encoding (with Hebrew
characters appearing as lowercase accented Latin
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Eli Billauer wrote:
Speaking of which, is there any good guide for writing HTML in Hebrew?
Is there any place where all this info is concentrated?
I don't know of such guide. My usual practice is to base new pages on old
ones I've written. I usually use strict HTML4 with
Use logical Hebrew with UTF-8 for the best results.
In what sense are results for UTF-8 better than for Windows-1255 or ISO
8859-8-I?
You will lose visitors
who are using NS4, but they should've upgraded by now.
Most statistics I've seen say these are less than 1% of surfers. But,
then, most
Speaking of which, is there any good guide for writing HTML in Hebrew?
Is there any place where all this info is concentrated?
There are several other questions, such as what character set to use in
the HTML for the Hebrew, what fonts, and how the overall thing should
work. And things I can't
