- From: <jeff.hickey@edwardjones.com>
- Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 07:56:03 -0500
- Cc: www-international@w3.org
Thanks Chris. In part, I misread and thought Guy was trying to force a VERDANA font (quite to the contrary!). I appreciate the correction and clarification. Humbly signed, Jeff ====================================== > > > jeff.hickey@edwardjones.com wrote: > > 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. > > No. > > Firstly, the character set in use here is Unicode. There is no need to > switch 8-bit code pages and so forth. > > Secondly, that character set is being correctly labelled and correctly > recognised, so there is no worry about sniffing - the characters are being > correctly transmitted. > > Thirdly, the default font may or may not have glyphs for Greek characters, > depending on the OS. For example, I am using Windows 2000 and the default > fonts do, indeed, have glyphs for Greek amongst others. > > Fourthly, conformant behavious on encountering a character for which there > is no glyph is to display some symbol such as an empty box. However, if you > select that text, copy iit and paste it into an application that *can* > display it, the characters should all be preserved. It is an issue of > rendering glyphs, not of understanding characters. > > Only if the browser misunderstands, or is not Unidode enabled, or the > content is incorrectly labelled, will one get "garbage characters". > > > I understand Microsoft has INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE SUPPORT from their > > 'products update' site windowsupdate.microsoft.com. But you get > > fonts "they choose" do give you. > > Right, but you are free to purchase or download other ones. In general, the > language packs are providing additionaldisplay capability for the OS, as > well as just fonts. > > > I don't believe, Netscape provides language packs. > > Thats because they are providing a browser, not an operating system. > > > You could purchase character set fonts from Bitstream, AGFA Monotype, or Dynalab to name a few. > > You could, but the exact same fonts used by any other application are also > available for use in Netscape. > > > Or downloaded the language packs from Microsoft, and adapted them for use with Netscape. > > Adapt in what way? > > > (I've never done it myself, but have heard of it being done.) > > Right ;-) > > > 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. > > This is completely unnecessary. And inded, for the sample page given as an > example, doing so would actually prevent the webfonts referenced in the CSS > being actually applied. > > -- > Chris
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