[WEB4LIB] Re: foreign language characters in browsers

[Kevin W. Bishop]

Alis technologies once had a browser called Tango that supported 19 
different languages, including CJK, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.  Not only would 
the browser render those character sets in the document window, the entire 
interface would adjust accordingly (e.g., buttons arranged from right to 
left in Arabic).  However, I cannot find any reference to it in their 
current web site:

http://www.alis.com/

They do claim to have integrated a translating technology into Netscape 6, 
however.

You'll also want to search the Web4Lib archives.  This has been covered a 
few times over the past few years.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web4Lib/archive.html

Good luck,
-kb


At 06:12 PM 9/13/00 -0700, Bin Zhang wrote:
>Hi, Julia,
>
>IE has a much better support for foreign languages then Netscape.  With
>the latest version of IE, you should be able to view both Japanese and
>Arabic.  Of course, you need to installed the optional language support
>from IE site.  They are not installed by default.
>
>With IE, you can also input CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) without an
>external software (such as NJStar).  To input Arabic, you probably have
>to get a program to do it.
>
>Good luck.
>
>Bin
>
>
>Julia Schult wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a way to support both Japanese and
> > Arabic in Netscape and/or IE?
> >
> > I have tried NJWIN to provide our users with Japanese
> > language support on the web.  I love it, but I haven't been
> > given the funding to buy it for all of our terminals.  We
> > have one Saudi student who uses the Web extensively and if
> > it is possible, I'd like to help him out, too.  I have not
> > been able to find anything for Arabic comparable to NJWIN
> > which provides excellent support for
> > Chinese/Japanese/Korean.
> >
> > ---Julia E. Schult
> > Access/Electronic Services Librarian
> > Elmira College
> > Jschult at elmira.edu

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