On Fri, 18 May 2001, [iso-8859-1] Lo�c wrote:
Oups, I've made a mistake this morning: I've
posted this message to the
mailbox of Robin instead of sending it to the mailing-list...
NP.
- automatically
sets correct fonts.
Have you take into account languages that do not have yet an
official
ISO/IANA code and for witch charset would be 'x-user-define'. It's
important also because NS4 do not like very much non-european
charsets: for example, to see Thai characters with this browser you
have to use a 'personnal charset' with a specific font associated to
it.
hmm, I suppose some diehards out there would want to implement x-klingon
or i-georgian.
So i'll add support for that.
- can figure
out the most likely language to use if the exact language
support is not available.
EG
if 'fr-ca' is supported (not plain 'fr'), but the user requests
'fr-ch',
they will get 'fr-ca' since it's the closest to 'fr-ch' that is
available.
Well I'm not sure 'plain fr' is not closest to 'fr-ca' than
'fr-ch',
even if differences are not so important. But there is an other major
problem: I've been told (by phpMyChat translators) that, for example,
Chinese simplified (zh) has nothing to do with Chinese traditionnal
(zh-tw). Then if one of these translations is lacking, the user should
use the default language rather than the closest one according to the
ISO code.
Hmm, ok, thats a good point. I suppose that for some languages this
would
be a major problem, so i'll turn it off in my code for now.
>- don't know if sessions are supported on
non-UNIX platforms
> I think sessions are supported on NT, but not sure beyond that
Session are supported on all the OS as far as I
know.... as soon as
'register_globals' is set to 'on'. PHP is awfully buggy since release
4.01 else (there are many bug reports about this at the official php
bug database, but no fix :().
Ok, after a little testing, I have seen that getting
sessions to work on
NT can be a bit of a pain in the posterior. I have had some major problems
with PHP builds before as well, and it still segfaults on a certain page
of mine for absolutely no reason I can find, and If i restart my apache,
the problem goes away for a while even.
Moreover they aren't supported by php3...
That could be a major problem.
Lastly, we should need an other variable to define the
cell alignement in
tables according to the language direction.
Hmm, that one would be worth adding,
for the sake of the Hebrew and
Japanese users out there at least.
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