- From: Donald Page <donaldp@sco.COM>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 08:50:55 +0100 (BST)
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- cc: Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com>, www international <www-international@w3.org>, Unicode Discussion <unicode@unicode.org>
Which is exactly the same problem which a Unicode browser user has with the single new character - it is not exactly in that codeset either today! D On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Larry Masinter wrote: > Donald Page wrote: > > Rubbish, any browser which either uses the font of the terminal it is > > running under (e.g. lynx) or which the user can define which font to use > > for display is Latin-0-capable. I reckon that is pretty much every > > browser. > > Using ©®±¶Ë, where the user must set the ©®±¶ in order to understand > the message, is unreliable. > > (To properly read this message, please set your mail browser to use a ©®±¶ > in which > © is an alternate rendering of 'f' > ® is an alternate rendering of 'o' > ± is an alternate rendering of 'n' > ¶ is an alternate rendering of 't' > Ë is an alternate rendering of 's'.) > > > Larry > -- > http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter >
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