Arabic-L:GEN:Mac Arabic Browser Recommendation

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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1) Subject: Mac Arabic Browser Recommendation
2) Subject: Moderator's experience with icab

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Date: 21 Dec 2000
From: "Rahawi, Mohammed" <RahawiM at state.gov>
Subject: Mac Arabic Browser Recommendation

Adding to Dr. Mordechai Kedar's comment with regards to the Mac OS
multilingual capability, I would suggest using iCab browser for browsing
Arabic HTML. It's one of the best browsers. It supports both PowerPC Mac and
the old Macs. I use it on My G4 at home and the Quadra 800 at work.
It can be downloaded from icab.de

Mohammed Rahawi
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2)
Date: 21 Dec 2000
From: Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject: icab info

I downloaded icab and had trouble viewing Arabic sites, so I contacted
Mohammed, and then icab directly.  Here are the answers I received, and
they did solve most of my problems viewing Arabic sites on tbe web from a
Macintosh computer, and gave at least part of the reason why some sites
still don't work.  For me this is a major advance.
Dil

Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 21:16:32 +0100
From: Alexander Clauss <aclauss at hrzPUB.tu-darmstadt.de>
Subject: Re: icab for mac with Arabic
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To: "Dilworth B. Parkinson" <Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu>
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>I have a G4 with system 9 and the Arabic resources installed.
>Are there special instructions somewhere that can help me get the settings
>right so that I can view these sites correctly?

Open the iCab preferences dialog (section "Browser > Fonts"). In the
first
popup button "Encoding", select "Arabic", Then the next three popup
buttons
will display the fonts that are currently used for Arabic. Make sure that
these fonts are really Arabic fonts, otherwise iCab can't display the
page
correctly.

There can be still some problems left because of the right-to-left
direction
of Arabic. The MacOS does know about the direction, but if a page is
written
for browsers that don't know about the right-to-left direction all the
text is
already reversed and the MacOS does revers it again and you can't read
the
text. This is a known problem and not very easy to solve.

Regards,
Alexander Clauss

Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:57:46 -0500
From: "Rahawi, Mohammed" <RahawiM at state.gov>
Subject: RE: icab
To: "'Dilworth B. Parkinson'" <Dilworth_Parkinson at byu.edu>
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Dil,
Do you have the Language Register Utility?
It comes with the language kit. Try changing iCab to register Arabic.
I think alahram  uses Windows encoding. When you first open the page, don't
use the converter built into alahram site. Go directly to the page and set
iCab encoding to windows.
Try other sites.
amin.org has  links to many Arabic newspapers.
e-mail me at rahawi at aol.com and I will send you an Arabic page saved on
iCab.

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