[ipac] Non-roman display, weird order?

[Jonathan Rochkind]

Thanks, this was a good hint. I've actually basically figured out what's going on. I've figured out how to write HTML to do whatever I want. But I'm not actually certain what the "right" way to display this is, and also have no idea if it's possible to get HIP to do that. 

Would be interested if anyone else has addressed this issue in HIP, what they ended up doing. 

If you're interested in my analysis of the situaton, I tried to write clearly for others at my institution, see:
http://bart.mse.jhu.edu/rochkind/hebexplan.html 

Which will probably only be intelligible at all if you have Hebrew font installed on your workstation. 

Jonathan

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Jonathan Rochkind, MLIS
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886 
rochkind at jhu.edu


>>> Michael Silver <msilver at prl.ab.ca> 5/2/2007 2:55 PM >>>
I did some poking around, and I think it has to do with the fact that
sometimes Arabic numerals are used with Hebrew (and other languages).

If my HTML has 
<hebrew characters>, 1927-

the page displays
1927 ,<hebrew characters>-

But
<hebrew characters>, 1927-1952
produces
1927-1952 ,<hebrew characters>

and
<hebrew characters>, 1927 - 1952
produces
1952 - 1927 ,<hebrew characters>

and
<hebrew characters>, c1927
produces
<hebrew characters>, c1927

As soon as it hits a letter or (some?) symbols, it seems to resume
normal ordering.

I don't know how you could fix that - it seems to be browser-based (as
you said). Maybe someone else on-list has run into it before.

Michael

Michael Silver, Network Administrator
Parkland Regional Library
5404 56 Avenue Lacombe, AB T4L 1G1
Phone: 403.782.3850    Fax: 403.782.4650
http://www.prl.ab.ca/  msilver at prl.ab.ca 

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