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Hebrew/Arabic support [was Re: Optimize Mozilla!!!]
Once upon the Netscape open-source mailing list. The URL of Sakhr is
http://www.sakhr.com
They forgot to mention the Accent multilingual plug-in for Netscape
-Hebrew, Arabic and more-. http://www.accentsoft.com
alex
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 11:09:30 -0800
From: Tague Griffith <tague@netscape.com>
To: Anguiano <anguiano@writeme.com>
Cc: mozilla-general@mozilla.org
Subject: Hebrew/Arabic support [was Re: Optimize Mozilla!!!]
Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 13:25:00 -0600 (CST)
Resent-From: mozilla-general@mozilla.org
There is a company called Sakhr (sp?) that wrote a product called Sinbad
which basically did some patching of Navigator 3.0 to allow right to
left character support, unfortunately that never got adpoted into the
core navigator source.
If you can track down the company, you might let them know of your
interest in a right-to-left version of navigator and try to convince
them that they might be interested in doing hebrew and arabic
distributions of the mozilla source - like red hat does for linux. i'm
sure that their are many companies that would be interested in this,
that it would be worthwhile for someone to set up a distribution.
remember, the technical issues for supporting hebrew are virtually the
same as those for supporting arabic, so you can leverage of work from
both of these communities. the other big challenge is finding
machines/platforms which will support hebrew and arabic. outside of the
Macintosh, I think all the other platforms require you to have the fully
localized, Middle East version of the system to support r to l scripts.
anyway, go for it...start organizing a group..
/t
Anguiano wrote:
>
>
> Is there any effort or interest out there in making Mozilla capable of
> printing languages such as Hebrew in the *right* direction (i.e.
> right-to-left)? Hebrew has far fewer characters than the roman set,
> though of course the nikud make it more complicated. But it is
> difficult to create web pages or compose email because of the lack of
> support for rtl composition.
> Any thoughts or other people interested in this?
>
> -Paul Anguiano