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Re: linux X-serving MS applications
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 22:31:27 +0200 (IST), "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a.
Frodo" <frodo@sharat.co.il> wrote:
>>however, I think logical hebrew is a good standard, and I hope it will get
>>wider support.
>Some new meanings of words "good" and "standard", which weren't previously
>known to me. As far as I remember, only new NT would have any working
>"standard" in Hebrew, basing on Eli's words. Also, it will remain
>"standard" as long as any proprietary technology - until it's owner won't
>change it, whatever reasons.
>As for "logical" (yet another Orwellian M$ name...) - what good you see in
>the fact that no one without OS support for hebrew will be able to read
>your texts? I say nothing about writing something... What "good" is that
>you have to employ complicated algorithms to see where next letter should
>be put on the screen, based on it's place in the character table? What was
>bad in just leaving the things as they are and writing letters to the file
>the way you see them?
>Is that supposed to be cool?
I think I have to disagree here.
The logical standard seems to be better from a technical point of
view. The fact that the english version of Netscape cannot display
logical hebrew is merely a technical problem. If Linux users wants a
solution, someone will have to come up with a solution. (Adding
right->left into QT, and making a hebrew KDE!). Any volunteers? ;-)
I think ANY hebrew information should be stored in the "logical"
direction. otherwise, when you try doing any operations on it, you get
funny results, like an address book with hebrew names sorted left to
right (i.e. according to the last letterin the name) instead of the
first letter.
I **THINK** Eli is selling a server doing automatic translation of
international web sites handling logical->virual, we well as rendering
international fonts into graphics automatically. You can use any
english browser to browse any web site. Since Eli's site is currently
down (try www.elmar.co.il), I can't really verify the above.
(Eli: if you would open such a free proxy site but made it commercial
by adding ads, this would be great!)
Udi