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Re: Hebrew Lynx: How much Hebrew and how much Lynx ?



>   Normal Lynx run on a machine with Hebrew console/xterm fonts will show
> Hebrew but only physical Hebrew (not logical, that is sdrawkcab). Also,

Everybody on Internet except Microsoft uses visual hebrew (iso-8859-8). I
don't claim it's good, but it's a fact. 

> any Hebrew buttons and text/menu drops in a page have the text spelled
> backwards. Don't ask. 

This is because of a bug in netscape and maybe explorer too. They ignored
character sets and fonts for controls for ages. Basically, there was only
one font/charset for a control - the system one in Windows or iso-8859-1
in X. So you had to write all controls in reverse (so Hebrew Windows users
will see it and others won't). Say thanks to Netscape for creating this
mess and neglecting internationalisation for years and years.

> 
>   So, maybe I could play with the BiDi algorythm and put it in the Lynx
> source and see what happens, if there is no true Hebrew Lynx.

It would be best to support two charsets, iso-8859-8 and windows-1255,
with conversion, and with possibility to emulate buggy Netscape behaviour.

>   One more thing: That button text thing is a pest. imho an algorythm must
> be developed to vote for the right direction based on a few well-known
> words.  Am I way wrong ? 

With hebrew it would be hard. Many words that don't contain "sofit" could
be also words if spelled backwards. 

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