[Savannah-hackers] [ 101362 ] UTF-8 and BiDi and HTML support

[nobody]

Support Request #101362, was updated on 2002-Oct-06 14:19
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Category: Web
Status: Open
Priority: 1
Summary: UTF-8 and BiDi and HTML support

By: a.zeini
Date: 2002-Oct-06 21:03
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Hi,

Thanks for the fast response.

To the first point: yes it is usual to use UTF-8 on web 
pages and it is really recommandable. In fact this is for 
many languages the only way to display localized content, 
and it is completley standard based: Unicode.
IMHO it wont hurt anybody, we would just go with the 
standards. And since all Free software or open source 
browsers that I am aware of, now support UTF-8 again it 
shouldn't be a problem.
As an example you could visit www.fsf.ir or 
www.farsikde.org, which are maintained by me. There are 
many more sites out there which use UTF-8. (NOTE: If you 
don't see anything in Farsi on the above pages, it is 
because you don't have a font that supports the Farsi 
subset of Unicode, but that's OK since it is still standard 
based)

On the second point, I agree with you about possible 
consequences. But a subset should fine and enough. 
Basically to be able to denote bold/italic, paragraphs, 
line breaks and text directions could be enough for the 
beginning. Again, it is because farsi runs from right to 
left. It would be great to be able to set paragraphs with 
the attributes dir="RTL". This is again included in HTML 
and hence fully standards compliant.

This would help us non-English speaking people a lot. 
Specially in cases we use Savannah for language specific 
projects, where it is important the "mother tongue" of the 
people.
What do you think? 

Greetings,
Arash

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By: yeupou
Date: 2002-Oct-06 17:52
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fr_FR)

On the first point we havent talked about it. I wonder if
this is technically possible and recommandable. Can you give
me example of websites in unicode.

On the second point, we need to think about the possible
consequences of granting such a right.

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