Re: Arabisation and character sets

> >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...
> 

Not that there are any JDK 1.2 browsers deployed yet, but there is some effort
to get cross platform internationalization support into the base Java 
application environment.

 http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/2d/spec/j2d-fonts.fm1.html#62258
 http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/intl/spec.html

Received on Tuesday, 31 March 1998 10:50:37 UTC