I spoke to fast. Upon taking a closer look at the file, the font was not set properly. MacOS 9.2, Indian Language Kit, Mac IE 5.1 and Devanagari MT as font face seem to display UTF-8 encoded Hindi just fine.
Etienne >Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:24:16 -0800 > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED], >[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > RE: Devanagari > >On this subject, Win2K and IE5+ seem to do a nice job displaying UTF8-encoded Hindi. >On the Mac, the Indian Language Kit provides for OS support and fonts (with MacOS 9.2 >and above), but I have not been able to display Hindi (UTF8 encoded) with Mac's IE >5.1. Am I correct in assuming that the Mac version of IE does not support Hindi >without a hack? > >Etienne > >>Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> "Christopher J Fynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: "Aman Chawla" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> RE: DevanagariDate: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 23:59:38 +0600 >> >>Aman >> >>Here in Bhutan the Internet connection is still much worse than in most >>places I've visited in India & Nepal (and the cost per minute is several >>times higher) - believe me even then UTF-8 (or UTF-16) encoded pages do not >>display noticeably slower than ASCII, ISCII or 8-bit font encoded pages - >>and I don't need to download any special plug-ins or fonts. >> >>- Chris >> >>-- >>Christopher J Fynn >>Thimphu, Bhutan >> >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >>> Behalf Of Aman Chawla >>> Sent: 21 January 2002 10:57 >>> To: James Kass; Unicode >>> Subject: Re: Devanagari >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "James Kass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: "Aman Chawla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Unicode" >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 12:46 AM >>> Subject: Re: Devanagari >>> >>> >>> > 25% may not be 300%, but it isn't insignificant. As you note, if the >>> > mark-up were removed from both of those files, the percentage of >>> > increase would be slightly higher. But, as connection speeds continue >>> > to improve, these differences are becoming almost minuscule. >>> >>> With regards to South Asia, where the most widely used modems are >>> approx. 14 >>> kbps, maybe some 36 kbps and rarely 56 kbps, where broadband/DSL is mostly >>> unheard of, efficiency in data transmission is of paramount importance... >>> how can we convince the south asian user to create websites in an encoding >>> that would make his client's 14 kbps modem as effective (rather, >>> ineffective) as a 4.6 kbps modem? >>> > > >------------------------------------------------------------ >Hot After Christmas DEALS on just about everything! >http://www.smartshop.com/cgi-bin/main.cgi?ssa=4099 ------------------------------------------------------------ Hot After Christmas DEALS on just about everything! http://www.smartshop.com/cgi-bin/main.cgi?ssa=4099