- From: <jeff.hickey@edwardjones.com>
- Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 16:34:21 -0500
- To: www-international@w3.org, Guy.Teasdale@bibl.ulaval.ca
No, you cannot display all greek characters in ANY default font. If your browser does not have a character set that matches the encoding, it will typically default to the ASCII character set, resulting in garbled text or an "empty box" to use your term. I understand Microsoft has INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE SUPPORT from their 'products update' site windowsupdate.microsoft.com. But you get fonts "they choose" do give you. I don't believe, Netscape provides language packs. You could purchase character set fonts from Bitstream, AGFA Monotype, or Dynalab to name a few. Or downloaded the language packs from Microsoft, and adapted them for use with Netscape. (I've never done it myself, but have heard of it being done.) Be sure in EDIT<PREFERENCES<Appearances<FONT you select "Use my deault_fonts, overriding document-specified fonts", so you maintain control of the fonts you are capable of displaying. Jeff Hickey Edward Jones 314-515-4453 www.edwardjones.com "I views and opinion of the writer do not necessarily represent those of Edward Jones." ================================================================================================ > I am trying to understand how it works: > > I want to publish a text which contains non ISO-Latin Charsets. By exemple, > there are many greek characters in this file: > http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca/doelec/theses/memoires/1999/ChRiviere/riv007.htm > I chose to use an utf-8 charset in the Meta tag: > <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> > > Everything works fine in Netscape and Internet Explorer IF AND ONLY IF the > client has the VERDANA font on its computer. Otherwise it displays an empty > box in place of the greek character. > > Is it possible to display all these greek characters in any default font... > Times New Roman, by exemple. What am I missing? > > P.S. I prefer to use UTF-8, I don't want to use the solution : > <FONT FACE="a Greek font"> qwerty </FONT> > > TIA > > > > > > Guy.Teasdale > Bibliothèque de l'Université Laval, Sainte-Foy, Québec G1K 7P4 > TÉL: (418) 656-2131 - 2090 FAX: (418) 656-7897 > http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca/info/pagepers/teasdale/
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