- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 23:19:17 +0100 (MET)
- To: Chris Pratley <chrispr@MICROSOFT.com>, "'www-international@w3.org '" <www-international@w3.org>, "'unicode@unicode.org '" <unicode@unicode.org>
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. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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