- From: Reinier van Kleij <rklei@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 11:33:49 +0200
- To: Francois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
At 10:26 AM 3/31/98 -0500, you wrote: >À 11:23 31-03-98 +0200, Reinier van Kleij a écrit : >> - 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. > >Render correctly? May I suggest that you introduce a hyperlink or a word >in bold in the middle of any line, and see what happens? Watch word order... > >>It seems hilarious to me that we must use a proprietary Microsoft standard >>in order to have Netscape render correctly. > >Hilarious yes, but less so if one considers that you are (apparently) >testing on a Microsoft-proprietary platform. Not that you have so many >other options for Arabic... Francois, Yeah, but the philosophy behind the (Netscape) browser was to get rid of the OS's peculiarities, right? So, even when I am running Netscape on a Microsoft OS, it should not behave itself this way. It should look at the <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html;charset=iso-8859-6"> and say "Hey, this is iso-8859-6 so let's render it". Netscape should not assume that all files it reads are saved with the character set of the OS it runs on... Again it seems that IE is a little more "democratic" than Netscape: at least it recognizes the Content-type tag, so it does not force us to use the MS code page 1256... Reinier +---------------------------------+ | Dr. Ir. Reinier van Kleij | | Project Manager | | Exol SpA | | Viale Regina Elena 20 | | 09125 Cagliari | | Italy | | Tel: +39 70 6013 321 (office) | | +39 336 813 652 (mobile) | | Fax: +39 70 6013 237 | | mailto:rein@exol.it | | http://www.exol.it/ | +---------------------------------+
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