Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id JAA25662; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 09:13:45 -0700 Received: from arachnet.algroup.co.uk by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with SMTP id JAA25630; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 09:13:01 -0700 Received: from heap.ben.algroup.co.uk by arachnet.algroup.co.uk id aa17405; 7 Jun 96 17:12 BST Received: from gonzo.ben.algroup.co.uk by heap.ben.algroup.co.uk id aa13277; 7 Jun 96 16:35 BST Subject: Arabic? To: Apache Mailing List Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 16:30:56 +0100 (BST) From: Ben Laurie X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 606 Message-ID: <9606071630.aa24183@gonzo.ben.algroup.co.uk> Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Someone just asked me if he could display web pages in Arabic. I had to admit that I don't know. I know that the "language" can be negotiated, and (at least in HTTP/1.1) the character set. I also know that Netscape has Japanese/Chinese and other tricky languages as options (though not Arabic). So ... how does this stuff work? Does it work at all? Cheers, Ben. -- Ben Laurie Phone: +44 (181) 994 6435 Freelance Consultant and Fax: +44 (181) 994 6472 Technical Director Email: ben@algroup.co.uk A.L. Digital Ltd, URL: http://www.algroup.co.uk London, England.