- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:58:09 +0100 (BST)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> Modern computers solve this - an off-the-shelf Macintosh will render > many languages without worrying. You have to make a deliberate decision to install Chinese fonts on Windows 2000. I think the same may be true of Windows XP. On Linux installs you also have to make choices, and some fonts are poorly supported (e.g. only the isolated forms of Arabic characters - Indic characters are also difficult - they need more than just selecting a glyph for the character). People using Windows 2000 (XP) in an office may not have access to install media, and, as the fonts are on the install media, they cannot fall back to Windows Update (even assuming they are allowed to use it). They may have diskless systems that reset to a clean configuration on every reboot. However, many of the target audience may well be using IE 4 on Windows 95; there are a lot of people still using Windows 95, even in the UK. Windows 95 is not supported, so you cannot do a Windows update to add fonts. The last time I tried, download.microsoft.com did have them, if you knew where to look. Even NT 4 hasn't offered language packs on Windows Update for about six months now. (If anyone has a Windows system prior to 2000, and think they may ever need language support in the future, they ought to download it now.)
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