Re: ?: Unicode Web pages

On Feb 7,  1:09pm, Chris Pratley wrote:

> One other thing that Word does not do is determine of some text is
> Traditional or Simplified Chinese, or Japanese. These are unified ranges,
> so without a font tag, it cannot pick a font that is appropriate for that
> text.

A font tag is inappropriate for this. If I set font "foo" on some text, and you
don't have a font called foo, well that doesn't help much.

A lang tag, or attribute, is what is required to disambiguate the
presentation of unified characters.



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Received on Friday, 7 February 1997 17:19:38 UTC