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Re: [putty]Bidi + PuTTY - done





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


ak.

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