Support Request #101362, was updated on Sun 10/06/02 at 12:49 You can respond by visiting: http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailsupport&support_id=101362&group_id=11
Category: Web Status: Open Priority: 1 Summary: [sv-software] UTF-8 and BiDi and HTML support By: yeupou Date: Thu 02/27/03 at 02:30 Logged In: YES user_id=1896 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux 2.4.21-pre4; i686; fr, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Ok, we'll replace iso by utf-8 charset. We plan to work on i18n, it will come along with i18n. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- By: a.zeini Date: Sun 10/06/02 at 19:33 Logged In: YES user_id=8268 Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Hi, Thanks for the fast response. To the first point: yes it is usual to use UTF-8 on web pages and it is really recommandable. In fact this is for many languages the only way to display localized content, and it is completley standard based: Unicode. IMHO it wont hurt anybody, we would just go with the standards. And since all Free software or open source browsers that I am aware of, now support UTF-8 again it shouldn't be a problem. As an example you could visit www.fsf.ir or www.farsikde.org, which are maintained by me. There are many more sites out there which use UTF-8. (NOTE: If you don't see anything in Farsi on the above pages, it is because you don't have a font that supports the Farsi subset of Unicode, but that's OK since it is still standard based) On the second point, I agree with you about possible consequences. But a subset should fine and enough. Basically to be able to denote bold/italic, paragraphs, line breaks and text directions could be enough for the beginning. Again, it is because farsi runs from right to left. It would be great to be able to set paragraphs with the attributes dir="RTL". This is again included in HTML and hence fully standards compliant. This would help us non-English speaking people a lot. Specially in cases we use Savannah for language specific projects, where it is important the "mother tongue" of the people. What do you think? Greetings, Arash ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=detailsupport&support_id=101362&group_id=11 _______________________________________________ Savannah-hackers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
