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Re: Displaying Chinese characters: some of them becomes to a block

From: Christopher Evans <christopher@cechinatrans.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:03:24 -0000
To: www-amaya <www-amaya@w3.org>
Cc: Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr, 刘研 <liu.yan@china-motion.com>
Message-ID: <op.tj3f7ybhfetw8i@post.demon.co.uk>

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:02:05 -0000, Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr> wrote:

>
> On Tuesday 05 December 2006 08:24, 刘研 wrote:
>> I installed Amaya 9.52 for Windows.
>>
>> When I input Chinese characters, some of chinese characters becomes to a
>> hollow block. This situation is very similar to the youtube.com.
>>
>> for some examples:
>> 1. the word "链接"(hyperlink) will displayed as "□接"
>> 2. the word "游戏"(game) will displayed as "游□"
>> 3. simply open http://www.chinaw3c.org page, you will see many hollow
>> blocks
>
> The "hollow block" is displayed when Amaya doesn't find out a font to display
> this character.

The characters Mr Liu mentions and a number of others are in the standard Chinese GB18030-compatible fonts supplied with Chinese and English Windows XP. Is there a way to link into them?

Christopher



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