I see what you’re trying to do here, and I respect it. The thing is, it’s no necessary - not on this board. This place is different from most other internet forums.
First of all, we’re generally not the ones on the defensive here.
Second of all, this place is dominated by mature, intelligent, moderate people. If you post in a smart, controlled, factual manner, they’ll respect you. If they start to think of you as a fanatic they’ll eat you alive. Without salt.
That doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice your beliefs or your determination; you just have to calm down a bit.
Go to “View” on your Windows control bar, drop to “Encoding” and change your setting to “Hebrew (Windows)”. Do not use “Hebrew (ISO-Visual)” or you’ll have left-right problems.
Learn how to read Hebrew.
(Mods, I know it’s against the rules. I had to do it just this once)
Well, drat, Alessan. I tried every option IE provides for viewing Hebrew and all of them had “left-right” problems (if what you meant by that was the Hebrew lines were lined up against the left margin instead of the right like they should’ve been). On the other hand, selecting “Hebrew (DOS)” gave some pretty interesting characters, not even close to Hebrew!
Astroboy. Glad you mentioned that. Try looking at this page in all of the different encodings available for IE. That’s good for a couple of minutes of fun.
Wow. What an honor to get a thread in straightdope named after me! And in the bbq pit!
I’m viewing the page with opera, not ie. So the best I can get is the letters within each word going from right to left but the words going from left to right. So I was able to make it out. For me to be able to view hebrew with this browser properly, there has to be a metatag on the page indicating to the browser NOT to use windows logical endoding, which the folks at straightdope did not do.
But don’t worry. I’m not accusing straightdope of antisemitism or anti-Operaism. And even if I were, where would you drag me to? We’re already in the BBQ pit!
Interestingly, there must be some support for Hebrew on the server side. Otherwise the page might not be able to interpret the characters comming in from the database and you would get Jibberish that nobody could read.
Having said that, I think that I’ve been pretty moderate and reasonable on these boards. I broke a few rules. àæ îä? I’m a newbie after all.
Its really hot in here. I’m going back to great debates.
