- From: Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:36:43 +0100
- To: www-international@w3.org
Hi On Tue 09-Jul-2002 at 12:37:25 -0500, Mustafa Ali (UrduWord.com) wrote: > > Is there an efficient method to determine if a certain multilingual content > will display correctly on a browser (considering localized text encoding, > language font repository, and text-processing algorithms), regardless of the > user's accept-language preferences? Not as far as I'm aware :-( > For example, using Arial Unicode MS and IE6, I can easily read > websites in Arabic, Japanese, and most other languages. Mozilla in Linux is getting good as well, everything on these two pages is rendered fine: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html The second site above includes some Urdu. The languages that I have found to be hardest are ones like Punjabi -- it _only_ works in Windows, Linux and OSX support is not yet there. A site I worked on with Punjabi and Gujarati needed a help page, because even with windows there were problems: http://www.laptopchallenge.org.uk/help/ Its not practical to ask people with dial-up connections to download Arial Unicode -- I ended up sending a copy to someone in India on a CD, in the post, since they had so much trouble trying to download it. Sorry, no easy answers... yet... Chris -- Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk> web design http://www.webarchitects.co.uk/ web content management http://mkdoc.com/ everything else http://chris.croome.net/
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