Re: validator graphing - Japanese fonts?

* Emmanuel Pietriga <epietriga@nuxeo.com> [2004-09-16 09:02+0200]
> Dan Brickley wrote:
> 
> >Talking with Masahide Kanzaki last week, he reminded me that 
> >the validator wasn't working with Japanese fonts any more. This is a
> >shame since Japanse folk were finding it pretty useful. 
> >
> >http://www.kanzaki.com/info/webwho.rdf is an example that has some 
> >Japanese chars. Sorry I've forgotten how to teach graphviz about fonts.
> >It'd btw be cool if this worked with Arabic as well. Not sure how
> >graphviz deals with right-to-left script.
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >Dan
> 
> This might just be a problem of the correct font not being found by 
> GraphViz.

Yes, I'm pretty sure that's the problem. 

> FYI,
> 
> IsaViz [1] and RDFAuthor [2] are both capable of working with Japanese 
> fonts (provided you have a font with these glyphs available). Not as 
> handy as the validator as you have to set them up locally, but they 
> represent alternatives until this gets fixed.

I think they (the Japanese users) know about those (nifty) tools, but are
specifically missing online validator's graph output...

cheers,

Dan


> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/11/IsaViz/
> [2] http://rdfweb.org/people/damian/RDFAuthor/
> 
> Emmanuel
> 
> 
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> Emmanuel Pietriga
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Received on Thursday, 16 September 2004 07:10:05 UTC