On Wed, 19 May 1999, Eli Marmor wrote:
>
> The beta releases had problems with display of Hebrew (in menus,
> labels, etc.). When the special SVGA driver of VMware for Win95/98
> was used, underscores ("_") were displayed instead of Hebrew letters.
> The Hebrew version shared this problem with some other languages (e.g
> Arabic, Thai, etc.), and it is even mentioned in the "Most Commonly
> Reported Incidents" page of VMware (
> http://www.vmware.com/support/commonreports.html ). You could avoid
> the problem by using NT rather than Win95/98, or by using 640*480*16
> resolution, or by avoiding the special SVGA driver. But these methods
> are not relevant for most users (without the special driver, the
> overhead exceeds impossible limits).
>
> So the BIG question is: Is this incident (according to Hetz - #679)
> resolved with the final version of VMware ????
>
Unfortunately, the answer is no. The problem still exists in the
latest Build 160 (i.e., version 1.0).
Ken
