RE: Cyrillic -

[Carl W. Brown]

Aleks,   The reason to use Unicode is more fundamental than fonts.  I assume that your your church members and other interested in your sites will have different systems.  Those with Cyrillic fonts will prefer Cyrillic text.  Using Unicode you can encode your entire websites in one encoding mixing both Latin and Cyrillic text.  What you need is an editor that can save the Cyrillic text as Unicode in UTF-8 form.  This is the same form that you will send to to the browser.  This way both Latin and Cyrillic text will be the same to the Web server.  Make sure that the HTTP header and the charset meta tag both specify utf-8. The browser will handle both Latin and Cyrillic the same as well.  All it will need to display Cyrillic is a Cyrillic font.  Windows and Mac users can install IE 5.0 and select the pan-European support.  The Windows & Mac fonts can be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/truetype/fontpack/win.htm   TrueType is a Unicode encoded font that can be used in non-Unicode applications as well.   Good luck   Carl       -----Original Message----- From: Magda Danish (Unicode) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 12:05 PM To: Unicode List Subject: Cyrillic - -----Original Message----- From: Aleksandar Poposki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 4:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Your opinion Hello.   I’m the Webmaster of the Macedonian Orthodox Church website located at www.m-p-c.org.  When I started this project I was not very familiar with Unicode and used “home-made” fonts for Cyrillic characters, but learning about Unicode, I see it is the best way to go, as it is the International standard.  Keeping this in mind, and other difficulties I’ve had, I wish to ask:   Is there a way to convert my work to Unicode w/o risk. I was wondering writing a program to search my document for a character, once found, replace it with the Unicode character number. Is there a script available for me to add to my web page so if the user doesn’t have Multi-Lingual Cyrillic support, to automatically install it? And, where could I obtain true-type fonts for Unicode.  Also, is there a script as in my previous question for true-type fonts?     Aleks