- From: Andy Holmes <aholmes84@shaw.ca>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 04:10:15 -0700
- To: "P.H.Lauke" <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>, WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
P.H.Lauke wrote: >>since people without >>suitable fonts are unlikely to be any the wiser if it was >>rendered correctly. > > > If you're only going to provide the language name in the specific > language's representation, then I would say the theory has a flaw: > how about users browsing from machines that are not theirs (e.g. > library, internet cafe, etc) and which do not have the necessary > font installed ? They'd get the garbled representation, but WOULD actually > be the wiser if they could see the correct font... > True, but why (as loose example) would someone say in an Iranian internet cafe/library/what have you, be browsing a Russian web site? One would expect that a computer/browser being used would have the fonts needed by the people from that region (ie. a US cafe might have support for Enlgish and Spanish while a Canadian library might have support for English and French). -Andy
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