Re: [Wvware-devel] wv and documents from Hebrew word

[Martin V. <mar...@hu...>]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:44:39AM +0200, do...@im... wrote:
> From: do...@im...
...
> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:44:39 IST
> 
> Hello,
> 
> First of all, let me extend my appreciation for the good work
> that you have been putting into the wv library!
> 
> I've been trying to figure out how to get wv to work with files
> output by Hebrew word, and I have found a few problems. In 
> summary, so far I have found the following problems:
> 
> 1. The UTF-8 output of the Hebrew characters are suffering from
>    an endian problem. The detailed description below shows in 
>    more detail what is happening. Basically all the Hebrew
>    characters were endian-swapped before they were encoded. 
> 
> 2. I have a guess of the answer to your question:
> 
>    > Could Someone who sees this tag tell me what was is this type of 
>    > justification, asian languages only i thing

This string comes from xml/wvHtml.xml. You could play with putting in 
the below tag, it should work somehow.
 
>    As far as I can tell this means that the paragraph is a RTL paragraph
>    as far as the Unicode BiDi algorithm is concerned. In HTML 4.0 this
>    corresponds to <p DIR=RTL>.
> 
>    I would very much like the HTML output to output the DIR directive
>    as it is critical to get the right display in the browsers. (Currently
>    only IE supports bidi, but Mozilla is also progressing).

I get Hebrew text in Mozilla 0.7, nicely at the right margin.
But it's Hebrew to me ;-) Pic attached.
 
> 3. The inline image that the file t1.doc is also containing Hebrew
>    characters. But wvHtml only gives me some unintelligable error
>    messages and no image is output.

Same experience.
 
> I'm attaching t1.doc here if you would like to investigate it.
> 
> And finally about text mode I will try to add support for the iso8859-8
> conversion (which is basically the same as Windows code page 1255) and 
> connect the library to my FriBidi (see 
> http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/FriBidi) library to do proper
> character arrangements in text mode.
> 
> Eventually I would like to get AbiWord to work in BiDi, but that is 
> a totally different story. 8-)
> 
> My system info is as follows:
> 
>    System RedHat Linux 7.0, kernel 2.2.16 running on PIII HW
>    wv version 0.6.3 
>    libwfm ver 0.1.21 (even though the file libwfm/version shows 0.1.16)

Oops...
 
> Regards, Dov
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Regards
Martin

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