On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Eyal Rozenberg wrote: > > > > Use logical Hebrew with UTF-8 for the best results. > > In what sense are results for UTF-8 better than for Windows-1255 or ISO > 8859-8-I?
With UTF-8 you can easily manage additional languages (except Hebrew and English) or symbols in the same page without resorting to tricks, and you reduce to (almost) zero the chance the site will be viewed with a wrong encoding. > You will lose visitors > > who are using NS4, but they should've upgraded by now. > > Most statistics I've seen say these are less than 1% of surfers. But, > then, most statistics don't give Mozilla/Netscape more than 2-3%. And > there's the question of what are the usage percentage among Linux > users/enthusiasts. Support for NS4 is a pain in the a**, because it does not support CSS correctly, not visual Hebrew. If you support NS4, you should either generate a seperate version of the site for NS4 users, or have most users suffer from using visual Hebrew. About Linux users/enthusiasts, most of us have upgraded our system since Mozilla 0.9 was released, and those who have not can easily download and install a modern version of Mozilla or Firebird. Alon -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 GPG public key at http://alon.wox.org/pubkey.txt Key fingerprint = A670 6C81 19D3 3773 3627 DE14 B44A 50A3 FE06 7F24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=[ Random Fortune ]=- Have you ever noticed that the people who are always trying to tell you `there's a time for work and a time for play' never find the time for play? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
