- From: seeman <seeman@netvision.net.il>
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:56:14 +0200
- To: "WAI" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
A student of mine asked me to look into writing html with a Hebrew which is a bi-directional language (so is Arabic). From my research for her Visual Hebrew can be see by browsers on all platforms: PC, Mac and X-terminal (UNIX). Logical Hebrew can only be seen from a PC. But, Visual Hebrew, the writer (or the converter program) has to take care of breaking the lines. So you have to use absolute width with page layout tables. If the browser makes break the line by itself, the text will become unreadable. Now for people don't have Hebrew installed on their PC the whole thing is gibberish. So you have to have an English version page. But that seems to me to be, well, a second best. A lot of this conflicts with our guidelines ( absolute width, tables for page layout...) and altogether seems to be a big accessibility problem for a lot of people. Have we dealt with all this before I joined? if so were can I read up about it? Or is this a whole new headache? Yours, with the Tylenol Lisa
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