{"id":299,"date":"2007-10-27T11:56:54","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T19:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2007-10-27T12:35:02","modified_gmt":"2007-10-27T20:35:02","slug":"well-its-about-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Well, it&#8217;s about time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since <a href=\"http:\/\/smontagu.org\/nscpsite\/BidiMozillaIUC.html\">support for bidirectional languages<\/a> was implemented in Mozilla by me and my colleagues at IBM. and through all the improvements and <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&amp;bug_status=RESOLVED&amp;bug_status=VERIFIED&amp;bug_status=CLOSED&amp;chfieldto=Now&amp;order=Bug+Number&amp;field0-0-0=short_desc&amp;type0-0-0=anywords&amp;value0-0-0=bidi+bi-di+hebrew+arabic+yiddish+persian+urdu+rtl&amp;field0-0-1=component&amp;type0-0-1=substring&amp;value0-0-1=bidi\">bug-fixes<\/a> that have been made since, one thing that we never got quite right was text with diacritics, aka nikkud, aka harakat, especially in justified text. This was a real obstacle in the way of my recommending Mozilla or Firefox to my friends, many of whom heavily use sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/mechon-mamre.org\/i\/t\/t0.htm\">Mechon Mamre<\/a> that feature vocalized Hebrew.<\/p>\n<p>I am happy to say that this is now fixed in trunk builds and the beta of Firefox 3 that will appear <abbr title=\"Real Soon Now\">RSN<\/abbr>. Here are some screenshots of <a href=\"http:\/\/mechon-mamre.org\/i\/t\/t2001.htm\">a chapter<\/a> from Mechon Mamre. Since they are in Hebrew, the &#8220;before&#8221; shots are on the right, and the &#8220;after&#8221; shots on the left. Click on the images to see full-size versions.<\/p>\n<h3>Linux<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"rtl\" align=\"left\" width=\"650px\"><a href=\"\/images\/nikkud-linux-before.png\"><img src=\"\/images\/nikkud-linux-before-small.png\" alt=\"\u05d7\u05d1\u05e7\u05d5\u05e7 \u05d7\u05d9\"><\/a><a href=\"\/images\/nikkud-linux-after.png\"><img src=\"\/images\/nikkud-linux-after-small.png\" alt=\"\u05d7\u05d1\u05e7\u05d5\u05e7 \u05d7\u05d9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>OSX<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"rtl\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"\/images\/nikkud-mac-before.png\"><img src=\"\/images\/nikkud-mac-before-small.png\" alt=\"\u05d7\u05d1\u05e7\u05d5\u05e7 \u05d7\u05d9\"><\/a><a href=\"\/images\/nikkud-mac-after.png\"><img src=\"\/images\/nikkud-mac-after-small.png\" alt=\"\u05d7\u05d1\u05e7\u05d5\u05e7 \u05d7\u05d9\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Windows<\/h3>\n<p dir=\"rtl\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"\/images\/nikkud-windows-before.png\"><img src=\"\/images\/nikkud-windows-before-small.png\" alt=\"\u05d7\u05d1\u05e7\u05d5\u05e7 \u05d7\u05d9\"><\/a><a href=\"\/images\/nikkud-windows-after.png\"><img src=\"\/images\/nikkud-windows-after-small.png\" alt=\"\u05d7\u05d1\u05e7\u05d5\u05e7 \u05d7\u05d9\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since support for bidirectional languages was implemented in Mozilla by me and my colleagues at IBM. and through all the improvements and bug-fixes that have been made since, one thing that we never got quite right was text with diacritics, aka nikkud, aka harakat, especially in justified text. This was a real obstacle in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}