A quick comments on Hebrew support:
* No, there is not even anything close to Hebrew support for any
office applications yet. Hopefully the ivrix project will cause
people to be more active on any levels.
* Hebrew netscape:
- The patches that Eli Marmor has made will probably be quite
useless when Netscape 5.0 comes out, as both the underlying
widget set changed (from Motif to Gtk) and there is a
new layout engine.
- There probably wouldn't be too difficult to support the same
kind of implicit mode that M$ does in Mozilla, by letting
fribidi have a go at the strings before they are drawn to the
screen. (With a simplistic solution you won't be able to copy
text from the Mozilla though, but it is better than nothing).
Somebody with the time and the diskspace should pull over
the Mozilla sources and check what's involved.
- But still, it is nice as a temporary solution.
* The localization efforts are nice but useless, unless there is
Hebrew support in the underlying widget sets.
* You could possibly show protobidi at the linux demo day to show
that there is development taking place in the direction of Hebrew.
* Finally, you might be interested to learn that I have during the
last few nights started hacking on the gtk 1.2 widget to support the
same interactions that I implemented in protobidi, but I don't think
that I will have anything ready in time for the show.
* In short, I'd love to see Linux penetrating into the Hebrew desktops
and into school systems. But it is far too early yet to convince
someone to drop windows...
Dov
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