On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Aryeh Gregor
simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com wrote:
No, it's not. We're talking about a specific article on the English
Wikipedia about a single obscure character, and related cases where
isolated characters don't display properly.
Well, actually I was just
Hoi,
I have been told off list that Windows-7 supports this character by default.
This is one valid reason to choose Windows-7 for your operating system. It
is also a challenge to other operating systems to be as good.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/9/25 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:13 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, actually I was just using that character as a (fairly
unimportant) example.
That's why I said and related cases where isolated characters don't
display properly.
Anyway, is there really no general solution to me
Hoi,
The question asked in the first post is What can I do to get more special
characters to render correctly in Chrome?. The answer that I supplied is
use Windows 7 because this will support such characters. This is certainly
true for the character given as an example.
Consequently, my answer is
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm using Chrome 3.0.195.21, and have long found that some characters
in Wikipedia render as boxes. One example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_with_stroke renders as box
(minuscule: box)...
As the article says, the
Hoi,
The notion that our editors should decide if a font is well enough
supported is a bit off. It is saying you cannot properly write your
language because
I do appreciate that TECHNICALLY you are right. However what is needed is
people adding the new glyphs to the font. This is no rocket
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
The notion that our editors should decide if a font is well enough
supported is a bit off. It is saying you cannot properly write your
language because
No, it's not. We're talking about a specific article
Hoi,
This specific character mentioned in the article is used to write the
Tanimuca-Retuarã language. This is specified in the article. itself.
Languages that need characters that are missing in fonts that are in general
use are not isolated affairs. In the end there is only one solution; we
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
This specific character mentioned in the article is used to write the
Tanimuca-Retuarã language. This is specified in the article. itself.
Ethnologue says it has 300 speakers, if I'm reading it correctly:
