What is standard for cyrllic HTML ? Hebrew ? Arabic ?
Andrew Daviel
http://www.kiae.su/ ? Is it a matter of specifying an alternate font,
or must one patch Mosaic as is done for the Japanese JIS coding?
I am also interested in coding standards for other non-European
langauges, (Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Korean, etc.), though one can
always use a GIF (not very efficient, though).
I am interested in making a multilingual server. A small demo may
be found at http://andrew.triumf.ca/cgi-bin/country-switch/
As yet, I only have simple English and French versions. Contributions
welcome.
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Yury Avrutin
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> What is the encoding standard for cyrillic (Russian) used at eg.
> http://www.kiae.su/ ? Is it a matter of specifying an alternate font,
> or must one patch Mosaic as is done for the Japanese JIS coding?
>
Russian is a real pain because there are three conflicting encoding
"standards" (surpising it hasn't brought out the tanks yet) -- KOI-8
common in the unix world, "alternativny variant" used in DOS, and
lastly a Windows encoding.
The problem is that a web client can't tell which encoding is used and
if you happened to have a wrong font, all you see is gibberish. A
common solution by web writers is to include all pages in triplicate
with pointers from the index page (saying something like "If you can
read this, click here") to make sure everybody can access at least one
set of pages.
Font selection is rather easy if you have a Windows client -- you don't
have to patch anything, just get a set of TrueType fonts (there are TT
fonts for each encoding) and try each one until you get a readable
page. FYI, relcom.* news groups use KOI-8, and so does kiae.
I'm in the process of making a web page on the music and lyrics of a
Russian rocker Boris Grebenshikov -- you'll find a link on my home
page. It's mostly English now (with KOI-8 lyrics) but when done, it
will be readable with any Russian font.
Yury
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