RE: question

Richard,

This is correct.  WEFT allows you to link fonts to your pages, but does nothing about shaping.  That is left up to the system you are on.

Regards, Russ 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Ishida [mailto:ishida@w3.org] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 10:27 AM
To: Russ Rolfe; 'Salih Karadayi'
Cc: www-international@w3.org
Subject: RE: question

Last time I looked WEFT allowed you to see basic character shapes for Arabic, but didn't do the contextual shaping.  Has that changed?

RI

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-international-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Russ Rolfe
> Sent: 09 July 2003 17:06
> To: Salih Karadayi
> Cc: www-international@w3.org
> Subject: RE: question
> 
> 
> 
> Salih,
> 
> > How can I show all these languages succesfully. I don't know all iso 
> > codes of these languages and also language codes (exm.
> Turkish=TR but
> > Urdu ???)
> > and standard fonts. For example can I use "Traditional Arabic" in 
> > Arabic languages. ect. Please help me immediately. Sincerely,
> 
> You may also want to look at Microsoft's Web Embedding Fonts Tool 
> 'WEFT'.
> It lets Web authors create 'font objects' that are linked to their Web 
> pages so that when an Internet Explorer user views the pages they'll 
> see them displayed in the font style contained within the font object.
> 
> You find out more about WEFT at:
> 
 
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/web/embedding/weft3/default.htm?fnam
e=%20&fsize=

Regards, Russ (rrolfe)
One of the World-Ready Guides (wrg)
Are you World-Ready?  http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev

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