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Re: www.telem.openu.ac.il and Linux. (fwd)
Shaul Karl wrote:
>
> 1) What are "visual fonts" that are mentioned in the forwarded message (at the
> bottom of this post)?
Hebrew font which are not controlled with any BiDi package. That is, just any
iso-8859-8 font.
> 2) The above site seem to have 2 kinds of www pages. The first kind is using
> visual Hebrew and can be seen with ISO-8859-8 chars. You can see such a page
> in www.telem.openu.ac.il. The other kinds is some kind of script. You can not
> see these kind of pages by yourself since the student password is required for
> them; Which is why I inserted what I believe to be one frame from such a page
> in the ts.exe file. Is there any chance of looking at these pages under Linux?
I used to work in Telem, so I still have a password. I took a look at one of
the forums. It's just simple iso-8859-8 Hebrew, and I see it perfectly well on
my Red Hat 6.1.
If you manage to see the regular pages on Telem with your linux, there really
is no reason that you shouldn't be able to do so on the forum pages. The only
difference I can see is that the regular pages carry an explicit character set
tag, saying that the character set is "visual" (Don't ask), and the ts.exe
pages (That's TeleSite) don't.
If you have some BiDi package in your Netscape, perhaps it shows Hebrew only
when it recognizes the character set. If so, you should write back to my
friend Tomer, tell him to be less grouchy, and to ask the programming staff to
add the Hebrew meta tag to the forums.
Herouth
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