On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does those text browser support UTF-8, Greek and Hebrew?
lynx supports UTF-8 just fine. Greek / Hebrew would depend on whether the user has fonts and other things set up correctly for it. Most users don't care about that though. 90% of users will just want English. Probably 98% just need a Latin-* charset. > Does those text browser build in Bi-Di ordering? Can they display > Biblical Greek and Biblical Hebrew? Does php support Bi-Di ordering on the > server side so you can convert the Hebrew from Logical order to Visual order > on the php before send to those text browser? > > Netscape start to have Hebrew support since Nsetcape 6.2 althought we still > have some selection bug there. > If we are going to display OT Hebrew, it better to assume the brower could > support Logical order Hebrew. It is not fun to add Bi-Di ordering code to the > server side. Just assuming browers support BiDi reordering is a bad idea. To do a proper implementation, we would need to survey those browers and OSes that can handle logical vs. visual ordering and serve up the appropriate one. I would be surprised if IE on Win9x did reordering automatically (since the rest of that OS doesn't). Doing the actual visual reordering on the server side is trivial since Sword has a filter (basically just a wrapper for an ICU call) to do this (and implementing it actually was kind of fun :). --Chris _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
