Arabic-L:GEN:Reading Arabic on Mac Browsers

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date:  31 Jul 2002
From:dparvaz at mac.com
Subject:Reading Arabic on Mac Browsers

I tried Mozilla 1.1 (cutting-edge) release in OS X 10.1.5, but the
shaping is still a bit off, and the letter substitutions are a little
unnerving. According to the GIF link I sent the list earlier, Arabic,
Hebrew, and Yiddish (but not Persian!) were covered, in addition to
several languages using Nagari script -- I noticed, Hindi, Marathi, and
Sanskrit. It was unclear if Cyrillic diacritics needed for the proper
representation of USSR-era Tajik orthography were available.

If 10.2 ("Jaguar") has throughly implemented Unicode as advertised, I'm
hoping this extends to the terminal window, so that Lynx, Perl, etc.
behave as they ought with Arabic text. Then I can use my Windows PC as
God intended... for minesweeper :-)

Cheers,

Dan.

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