[Fribidi-discuss] Help with porting fribidi to Mac OS X

Beni Cherniavsky cben at techunix.technion.ac.il
Tue Apr 15 08:46:09 EST 2003


Dov Grobgeld wrote on 2003-04-15:

> > What I want to do with fribidi:
> > I want to create a tool for Mac OS X end users (read double clickable)
> > to convert between visual Hebrew ISO-8859-8 and Windows-1255 or Unicode
> > UTF-8 both ways, and maybe other fribidi tricks if needed later.
>
> If it is for web use I discourage supporting visual Hebrew at all.
> It is a disaster that should be banned as soon as possible. Tell your
> users to update to a BiDi supporting browser asap.
>
"Me too", with both hands ;).  I wonder whether the world needs some
visual2bidi recovery tool (AI-asissted and interactive to make it as
effecient as possible)?

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Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>




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