Re: Revised gateway FAQ

At 00:21 04/12/25, John Yunker wrote:

 >On Dec 23, 2004, at 10:37 PM, Martin Duerst wrote:

 >> >If you do not want to change encodings, an alternative is to embed 
non-Latin text within graphics located outside of the pull-down menu, as 
demonstrated by the Symantec Web site. (image: symantec.gif)
 >>
 >> What about numeric character references? In a decent browser, these are
 >> supposed to work as well as the actual (e.g. UTF-8 encoded) characters.
 >> Pull-downs, similar to title bars, often have more limitations than the
 >> page itself, but this is usually due to the browsers calling the system
 >> widgets, and these in turn using the system character encoding rather
 >> than Unicode (in particular on older systems or when not using wide-character
 >> APIs). But in this case, this is not an encoding issue, and should not
 >> affect what ultimately shows up in the pull-down.
 >> There are other browsers (in partilar Netscape 4) that do not correctly
 >> interpret numeric character references, but these browsers should be
 >> ignorable by now.
 >Good point. My only concern is that the process of converting characters 
to their numeric equivalents would probably merit an FAQ of its own. But 
this probably should be mentioned as a workaround.

Having an FAQ about numeric character references is a good idea.
Probably there could also be a separate FAQ about things like pulldowns
and their limitations on certain browsers, or that could go into the
techniques.

But it definitely needs to be mentioned here, because otherwise
people who know about it will get the impression that it won't
work in this case.

Regards,    Martin.

Received on Monday, 27 December 2004 03:48:49 UTC