Arabisation and character sets

LS,

I wanted to share some experience on creating HTML in Arabic. We are
converting the GIP site (www.gip.int) into Arabic
(www.gip.int/ar/noframes.htm: a rough machine translation!). We are using
iso-8859-6 character set and Mac with Arabic Language Kit for editing.

I have asked some feedback from colleagues in Egypt:

   - ALis Tango and MS IE 4.0 (on Arabic Enabled Windows) render 
     iso-8859-6 correctly
   - Netscape on an Arabic Windows and Netscape with Shakr 
     plug-in on "normal" Windows do not render correctly.
   - using the proprietary Microsoft standard Windows 1256 all 
     browsers render correctly.

Can anybody confirm these findings?

It seems hilarious to me that we must use a proprietary Microsoft standard
in order to have Netscape render correctly. 

Reinier van Kleij




 


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Received on Tuesday, 31 March 1998 04:30:26 UTC