- From: CE Whitehead <cewcathar@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:57:52 -0400
- To: addison@yahoo-inc.com, ntounsi@emi.ac.ma
- Cc: kent.karlsson14@comhem.se, www-international@w3.org
Thanks Najib and Addison for your information; as near as I can tell the problem is I have Western European Windows & also the notepad here (U.S.) is set only for Western European Windows & some of the Unicode characters are not Western European Windows characters. Thus I cannot put non-Western European Windows characters in my notepad edited comments. (So I guess people that put characters into their comments are relying on people's having other editors--besides notepad.) Of course, if you can grab the character codes somehow my browser displays them properly (so far) regardless of language encoding & notepad of course can handle the numeric codes. (I should try a few really odd character encodings before saying that for sure, however, as I've just been working with Cyrillic and finally Thai [I have to get most Asian fonts somewhere other than the library computer!].) ( language codes are thus only used for text-to-speech??) In Dr. Ishida's Best Practice 4 (http://www.w3.org/International/geo/html-tech/tech-lang.html#ri20030112.213804197), Example 10, displays like this in my browser: <p>The title in Chinese is <span lang="zh-Hans" xml:lang="zh-Hans">中国科学院文献情报中心</span>.</p> (I'm going to try one more browser though.) So I would say only the numeric codes are safe & these--to me--are not suitable for comments in the source; so I still think comments should be in a Latin alphabet without accents or anything (that's just a personal view). Best, --C. E. Whitehead cewcathar@hotmail.com > > > 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. > _________________________________________________________________ MSN is giving away a trip to Vegas to see Elton John. Enter to win today. http://msnconcertcontest.com?icid-nceltontagline
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