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Re: A call for arms - the future of Hebrew in the digital age
>Status of facts: I do not know any more details then the original story
>I mentioned which, most probably, did not give all details.
Not to mention details that may not be true.
>Now, "logical" hebrew, so I was told is 99% similar to some open
>standart that Eli Marmor (which is an exclenet source ;-) says exists.
>But it is not 100% compitable. Which means I cannot view those pages in
>any program not written by microsoft.
Any program that will support RFC2070 fully, will be able to present
these pages (don't take the 99% too hard; for practical purposes, it's
pretty much compatible).
Sad fact is, that currently no browser (read: Netscape, and perhaps
Opera) supports this international, fully open standard. MSIE is
(again unfortunately) the only product that is close to supporting
the RFC2070 (based on Unicode 2.0 directionality) standard.
Please understand: As you can see, the situation is a bit more complicated
than the "black and white" picture that's being drawn on this forum.
>This same system is now supposed to be used to built the "official"
>goverment sites. Translation: if you want information from the Israeli
>goverment, you need to buy a m$ product.
This is not going to happen any time soon.
>I do not believe that this is right. I believe the goverment should
>communicat with the citizens in open standart protocols.
Absolutely. Well put.
Now, to be productive (and get back to what this mailing list is supposed
to be about): go to http://www.mozilla.org, and see if any Israeli can
contribute to the i18n (internationalization) of Netscape, at this era
of open source. This way, Linux (and other Unix) users will be able to
be part of the *standard* Hebrew deployment.
Doron Shikmoni