RE: Persian-English Dictionary -- Was: Iranian Mac User group

2004-06-04 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
[snip] I'm sure this dictionary must have been funded by the Iranian government and no profits expected. I'm shocked to see that less than a dozen US universities have purchased it. I should think the author and publisher would be very happy to see it put online and all the efforts go to some

RE: Misinformation!

2004-06-04 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Thanks for you note. 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). But it's quite a different case in web. 30-40 percent is

Re: Misinformation!

2004-06-04 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi there, Well, this approach has been investigated by some people already. Another approach that is easier to implement is use a javascript to translate the page on the browser side. For people using PHP, it's a couple on lines to open an output buffer that does the translation, and I'm sure

RE: Misinformation!

2004-06-04 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
Here is a solution (in fact a hack) that if implemented correctly, can resolve some of the issues till people and Google start using correct software: With a little tweaking, the web servers can translate the correct Unicode to the incorrect unicode desired so much by the Win9X users. That

RE: Misinformation!

2004-06-04 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
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