Re: LYNX-DEV Patch for development version 0.58

[Doug Kaufman]

On Wed, 3 Sep 1997, Klaus Weide wrote:

> The text is transmitted and stored in logical order, not in visual order -
> at least sometimes, and according to Unicode standard and to RFC 2070
> (see 4.2.4 there) and to the HTML 4.0 draft.  I can't really tell whether
> that is the case for the pages I looked at, because I cannot read a word
> of it (so I can't tell whether I am reading a "word" or a "drow"), but at
> least for newer Web pages I think that is always the case.  For mail it
> may be different.  There is actually defined iso-8859-8 and iso-8859-8-i
> and iso-8859-e, depending on whether "visual" or "implicit" or "explicit"
> directionality is used  (RFC 1556.  And it gets really fun when
> left-to-right and right-to-left text parts are mixed.
> 
> So basically Lynx will show text written in Hebrew and Arabic reversed.
> I don't know whether users of those languages are more trained than others
> to read sdrawkcab, maybe they are more used to this kind of trouble.

I am still confused.  Isn't this the responsibility of whoever is
putting up the html page? Anyone placing a web page with a right-to-left
language should be doing markup so that it appears correct when read by
a browser.  Are you implying that other browsers will take the same html
page in ISO 8859-8 (or ISO 8859-6) and display it in the reverse order
as lynx?

                                 Doug

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