- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:17:19 -0000
- To: "'Andrew Cunningham'" <andrewc@vicnet.net.au>, <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
Hi Andrew, This is all true, but this faq is about character sets, not fonts, so I don't want to get into too much detail. I will modify the wording slightly, however, to indicate that some browsers do font substitution. RI ============ Richard Ishida Internationalization Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/International/ http://rishida.net/blog/ http://rishida.net/ ________________________________ From: Andrew Cunningham [mailto:andrewc@vicnet.net.au] Sent: 18 November 2007 10:14 To: Richard Ishida; public-i18n-core@w3.org Subject: Re: New draft of What is encoding Richard, The section "What about fonts?" is somewhat misleading. Web browser behavour in the absence of a glyph in a font is browser specific. On the windows platform, IE will display the missing glyph symbol (usually seen as a square/rectangle) while other browsers may exhibit alternative behaviour. Firefox/SeaMonkey and possibly Opera will swap fonts and display the glyph. Resulting in a ransom note effect. To make this more complicated, the version of the font itself may impact on display. For instance Dinka or Nuer text will display in Times New Roman 5.0.x while you will see missing glyphs in Times New Roman 3.0.x. Internet Exlporer 7 will display all glyphs on Windows Vista, but Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP SP2 will display some missing glyphs. This is simply due to the two operating systems using different versions of the font. There are also other differences between the fonts, not just glyph inventories. TNR 5.0.x has has OpenType mark and mkmk features available for the Latin script while TRN 3.0.x doesn't. Andrew -- Andrew Cunningham Research and Development Coordinator Vicnet State Library of Victoria Australia andrewc@vicnet.net.au
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