Re: hebrew translation

Nir Dagan wrote: > Hello, > > Summary: One may produce Hebrew pages with output in either ISO-8859-8 or > ISO-8859-8-i, but SHOULD serve them as ISO-8859-8-i over the web. > > Strictly speaking ISO-8859-8 and ISO-8859-8-i > are the same encoding. Namely, they assign identical bytes to the same > characters. > > Howver due to historical reasons one should not use the notation > ISO-8859-8 > for HTML documents over the WWW as many browsers assume that pages in that > encoding are > encoded using the "visual method" rather with Unicode's implicit > directionality ("the logical method"). > > As for generating HTML pages using XSLT or some other SGML/XML > mechanism, one may configure the output encoding to be ISO-8859-8, > even when the pages are written in the logical method. > But they should be served via HTTP with the notation: > > Content-type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-8-i > > Hope this clarifies the issue. > Please, do not hesitate to ask for more clrafications, if needed. > > Nir. ....So we should use iso-8859-8 but write iso-8859-8-i in the html files .. Thanks for clearing that up for me !!! Now we can start the translation. Gabor/anyone, I still need some DSSSL expert to help me with the "dir=rtl/align=right" problem ... so if you know someone like that - just send me his email. Regards Shlomi Loubaton shlomi@php.net