Re: UTCへのレターの本体

On 2021/08/23 16:46, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
> Established tradition apart, I think using fullwidth characters for Greek/Cyrillic single characters may be perfectly okay, but for full words and longer text segments, it is really a bad idea, it really looks bad and isn't readable.
> 
> I remember when Wikipedia would do that (e.g. in pages such as
> https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ペロポネソス半島). Fortunately, I haven't seen it in Wikipedia for a long time. I'm not sure this is because I have switched browsers, because browsers got more sophisticated, or because Wikipedia got more sophisticated, or a bit of each. But it's definitely a big improvement.

   I think there should be two issues,
- old-era, there is not a common agreement to insert lang attribute for short text w/different language inserted into main content (so, could be rendered with font from main language but not one suitable to the short text)
   (in Wikipedia, now putting short text with different language is handled by special template which automatically insert lang attribute)
- font selections over mixed language text were non-interoperable among browsers, like in age of Firefox 1
   (many questions raised against handling between IE and Firefox at that time,,, around 2005??)