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Re: penguins of the world unite!
>Some unpleasant things to say.
You bet.
>Well, so to be honest we also should protest:
> - the fact that Netscape is totally ignoring hebrew
A few weeks ago I posted a "call" for Israeli coders that are
knowledgeable in Hebrew and BiDi issues, to volunteer to oversee
the effort of making Netscape Communicator support Hebrew.
(It was not posted on this list since I thought it was quite
off-topic, but I may have been wrong).
As you know, Netscape has released sources for Communicator.
It was looking for people to assume responsibility for making
it more "International". It found volunteers for European languages,
eastern languages, Arabic. Not Hebrew.
I felt this is a disgrace and posted that call; I assume it would
be a public service - well, a national service - to have, once and
for all, *standard* Hebrew support in this product. This may, for
one thing, help non-MS communities (such as Linux users) tremendeously,
and for another thing, help promote the long-awaited cut-over from
visual Hebrew web sites to standard, implicit (aka logical) Hebrew.
I have received no response. Not one. Nada.
This puts us in a somewhat awkward light, wouldn't you say. I know of
some people who read this list who could easily assume this project
(hint hint - you know who you are...).
The deadline for the 5.0 version of communicator has passed.
I believe there *is* someone who finally started to make some attempts
at this project - we'll have to wait and see how successful it's going
to be. The initial support may actually rely on MSWin's inherent Hebrew
support (yes).
>If anyone has spare time for such a protest - why not to donate it to
>Linux and write a piece of code that corrects one or more of this
>problems?
>
>Before we have all mentioned above corrected, we have no moral right to
>protest anything Microsoft does on Hebrew market. To protest, one should
>have better things to show, to provide alternative. Where's Linux Hebrew
>alternative?
Amen.
Doron Shikmoni