From robin@bilkent.edu.tr Sat Jun 28 15:46:24 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ([139.179.30.24]) by digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 19WOSX-0006JV-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 15:46:17 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A88F31E8D for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 01:45:44 +0300 (EEST) Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (ppp101.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.111.101]) by manyas.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7039E27172 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2003 01:45:42 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <3EFE1C39.3050904@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 01:52:41 +0300 From: Robin Turner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, tr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] OT Hebrew [was: Re: Re: {WebMaster} Site Update: New translatable files.] References: <0HH700HMYQHK1X@mxout4.netvision.net.il> In-Reply-To: <0HH700HMYQHK1X@mxout4.netvision.net.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 X-archive-position: 5761 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: robin@bilkent.edu.tr Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list Adam Raizen wrote: > Also the Hebrew version is displayed incorrectly; I think because > browsers assume that it is ltr text instead of rtl, even with > explicitly including the Unicode rtl sign, so if you have a chance > to add a dir tag to be translated, it would be helpful. Is it true that a similar rtl/ltr confusion resulted in Christians calling the Hebrew god "Yahweh" when it should have been "Heveheya" (He Vau He Yod)? robin.tr -- "Some guy breaking into a government computer system and wreaking havoc makes for a more interesting movie plot than some guy writing device drivers. It's hard to work in a good 10-minutes car chase scene with some guy who writes device drivers..." - tjc, post to LWN Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin