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Re: A call for arms - the future of Hebrew in the digital age






On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:

> For all those who posted responses - thanks.
> To all those who posted "count me in"S - thanks, but please not on the
> list.
> 
> Status of facts: I do not know any more details then the original story
> I mentioned which, most probably, did not give all details.
> 
> The problem, as I see it, is NOT the fact that MS was chosen by rather
> the following:
> 
> Fire up Internet Explorer on Win95 OSR2 (non-hebrew version, because
> there is no Hebrew version). Go to Microsofot Israel site.
> Can you read anything? no. The page is written in Microsoft's "logical"
> Hebrew. (needless to say that save for Hebrew version of M$ products
> there is no program known to me that can read this page).

While I have not had a chance to see to test this yet, according to MS,
Hebrew Explorer 4 will read Hebrew, either implicit (as mentioned, the
only standard), or visual, when installed on a non-hebrew win95, provided
Hebrew fonts have been installed. They also intend to provide such font
packs on their site as free downloads.

There have been commercial browsers around for years that could read this
format. Two examples I can think of for Windows would be Alis and
Accentsoft's browser
 > 
> Now, "logical" hebrew, so I was told is 99% similar to some open
> standart that Eli Marmor (which is an exclenet source ;-) says exists.
This is not something Eli Marmor "says" exists. There is a standard, and I
think people on this list would do well to look things up before they post
such statements. I always linux was a system for those people who actually
read documentation.

> And as Omar said it, we need a laeyer(s?).
Since you are asking (and some people on this list know why I am careful
to make this comment) - it's lawyer, derived from law. Even English makes
sense sometimes:)
We may or may not need a lawyer, but not on this point. So far I have seen
nothing to suggest that this system will only be usable with MS products.

Uri


> 
> Anyone?
> 
> Gilad
>