- From: Addison Phillips <addison@yahoo-inc.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:13:05 +0100
- To: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- CC: CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>, kent.karlsson14@comhem.se, www-international@w3.org
> In general, "?" means: I know the character code, but don't have the > font to display it, > and "the little rectangle" means: I don't recognize that character code. Not quite. In general the "?" means that a conversion was done and the target character encoding didn't include the character, such as when converting Japanese ideographs encoded as Shift-JIS to ISO 8859-1 (although some browsers also display question marks when the character code is unknown). The little rectangle means "I know the character, but don't have a font". Addison -- Addison Phillips Globalization Architect -- Yahoo! Inc. Internationalization is an architecture. It is not a feature.
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