non-western charset external .txt files

Is it possible to use non-western languages in external text files
(.txt, Hebrew) as clips and have realplayer 10 display the text
correctly on both Mac and PC platforms? What will be the proper way to
do that? What encoding and font-face should be selected in the word
processor creating the external Hebrew text file?

 

I am currently using iso-8859-8 Hebrew charset in the param tag of
<text> clip in SMIL calling a Hebrew .txt file, but had success
displaying it correctly only on PC. On a Mac the same Hebrew text file
show as garbage using realplayer 10 (player language preferences set for
Hebrew)

 

I understand 8859-8 hebrew charset is not supported in realtext. Is this
still the case?

 

>From Real Networks Production Guide:

Note: The ISO-8859 standard specifies several additional character sets,
such as iso-8859-2 and iso-8859-3. RealText supports only iso-8859-1,
however, meaning that Cyrillic, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, and several
Eastern European languages are not supported in RealText.
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