- From: Matthew J Gering <gering@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 13:03:44 +0100
- To: Multiple recipients of list <www-html@www0.cern.ch>
I'm not sure the distinction between Latin 1 and Latin 2, so forgive me if I misunderstand. Any character you write is saved as a hexadecimal number 00-FF that that character represents in the font you are using in your editor. As far as I know, there is no way to specify in HTML what character set standard you are using in order to have users' browsers select the appropriate font. What will show is the characters corresponding to each number from the character set the browser is using, regardless of what you intended them to be. Win1252 and koi8 are two examples of extremely differing fonts, both used on the WWW (1252 is latin & cyrillic, koi8 is just cyrillic). I assume Latin 1 and 2 differ only on the extended characters. Are both standard on the WWW? Which Windows TTF's, if any, correspond directly to each of these sets? -- Matt On Wed, 1 Feb 1995, Grzesiek Staniak wrote: > This probably is a FAQ, but could anybody tell me/direct me to some > info on how to include Latin 2 set characters in HTML documents? I know > I can use references to characters from the Latin 1 set (most European > letters), but they're not what I need. Can this be done at all? And if > the answer is yes, what do I need to produce documents including Latin > 2 characters, and what do people need to be able to read them? > > Sorry to bother you again and thanks in advance, > > ------------------------------- > Grzesiek Staniak > <gstaniak@golem.umcs.lublin.pl> > <gstaniak@galen.imw.lublin.pl> > >
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