From: Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 12:56, Owen Dunn wrote:
> I disagree. No matter how preferable UTF8 may be, some people will > have Win1256, and PuTTY understands it _now_ as an encoding for > incoming data. In my view, all Arabic should be shaped and have the > bidi algorithm applied to it, regardless of how it's encoded. >
I would have to agree with you there -- but Arabeyes.org will not put any effort to make it easier for CP1256 users ;)
the effort isnt much, and i tend to agree with Owen. if Arabeys.org doesnt support cp1256, who will ?
Regards, Mohammed Elzubeir