We've tried the RTL versions here and they work as advertised.
Addison Phillips
Director, Technology
SimulTrans, LLC
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Misha Wolf [mailto:misha.wolf@reuters.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 24, 1998 2:46 AM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Re: Unicode-capable web browser
>
>
> Otto Stolz wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > <http://www.reuters.com/unicode/iuc10/x-utf8.html>
> >
> > This UTF-8 encoded page is properly rendered by Alis' Tango browser
> > (disregarding the Georgian part, for which I haven't any
> font available).
> > Netscape Communicator 4.05 and MS-IE 4 properly render all
> but R-L samples
> > (Arab, Hebrew, and Yiddish), because I do not have R-L
> enabled versions of
> > these programs (as another poster in this thread has said, these are
> > available for download, but I haven't tried them yet).
> >
> > <http://www.reuters.com/unicode/iuc10/x-ncr.html>
> >
> > This is the same text, using NCRs (cf.
> > <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#h-5.3.1>).
> Tango and MS-IE
> > display this page as the previous one; Netscape, however,
> breaching the HTML
> > 4.0
> > specification, cf.
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/charset.html#h-5.1>, dis-
> > plays only characters from the Latin-1 repertoire, in this page.
>
> The above is due to a further, hidden, difference between the
> UTF-8 page [1]
> and the NCR [2] version. The NCR page is the only one of the
> IUC pages not
> to contain a charset declaration:
>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=...">
>
> We did this deliberately, to highlight the point made here by
> Otto, namely
> that the *full* Unicode repertoire can be expressed in HTML
> using *any*
> charset at all, even "US-ASCII".
>
> You will find that the Netscape browser correctly displays
> the NCR page if
> you tell it, via the appropriate menu, that the page is in "Unicode".
>
> It is my understanding that the next version of the Nescape
> browser will
> display the page correctly without this help from the user.
>
> [1] http://www.reuters.com/unicode/iuc10/x-utf8.html
> [2] http://www.reuters.com/unicode/iuc10/x-ncr.html
>
> > Best wishes,
> > Otto Stolz
>
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