- From: Reinier van Kleij <rein@scano20.vol.it>
- Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 18:36:06 +0200
- To: www-international@w3.org
LS,
I would like to summarize on the Arabisation issue:
- Netscape does not support arabic (when will it: Communicator 5.0?
any comments Erik?),so in order to render Arabic on Windows
with Netscape, one must use Windows 1256.
With the Sindbad plugin from Sakhr Software
(http://www.sakhrsoft.com/tech/ic-sind.htm) Netscape handles
Arabic correctly.
- MS IE and Tango support arabic and one can use iso-8859-6 or
windows 1256 charsets. Linking arabic words works perfectly.
Bottom line: windows 1256 seems to be the most appropriate choice for
HTML in Arabic.
I must apologogize to Erik van der Poel (Netscape) for the fact that I
suggested that Netscape did not recognize the Content-Type META tag. This
is obviously NOT true.
Thanx to everybody that joint this discussion.
Best Regards,
Reinier van Kleij
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