Re: TAU website and information

On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Eliran wrote:

> Moshe Kaminsky wrote:
>
> >Actually, I can usually see hebrew with lynx (for instance,
> >www.walla.co.il). Of course, you need hebrew fonts for your xterm. I
> >could even see hebrew in tau's home page, though there were some other
> >problems there.
> >
> >Moshe
> >
> XTerm... lynx was built mainly for console I bet.

lynx was built for "a terminal". Be that the linux console, xterm, or a
VT320 terminal. When lynx knows it is in an ISO-8859-8 terminal (Hebrew),
but displays a ISO-8859-1 (latin1) page, it will try to convert all the
accented latin characters to their basic forms. (in many cases that page
was actually a Hebrew one. But if the page wasn't properly marked, you may
have to tell lynx that in the 'O'ptions).

Lynx actually has builtin support for character-set conversions. This is
the est you can get with a terminal-based program that can't really
control the font it will present.

But anyway, lynx hs no bidi support. You may run it in a bidi-enabled
terminal (e.g: konsole), but this is far from proper application-level
bidi support.

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Tzafrir Cohen
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