and the screenshot is a jpg I guess? Sounds like it is arial, I forgot that there is a unicode version. I know a very few chinese character (Japanese uses them and I studied it a bit) but have never tried to do a site with them. I am essentially illiterate in both langauges.
Dana On 10/12/05, Charlie Griefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > yup. downloaded from MS. installed. it's there. > > not quite sure the difference between Arial and Arial Unicode (can you > tell this is my first non-English site?), but according to > http://www.ascendercorp.com/arialunicode.html, Arial (Unicode) > supports Chinese (both Simplified and Traditional). > > On 10/12/05, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > um. Stupid question, do you have PMingLiu on your machine? > > > > On 10/12/05, Charlie Griefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > well, i have the chinese characters entered into the div. > > > > > > i assign the div a style of <div style="font-family:arial;"> and it > > > looks like the screenshot. > > > > > > I assign <div style="font-family:PMingLiu";> and it looks nothing like > > > the screen shot. > > > > > > [:: shrug ::] > > > > > > it's all greek to me :) > > > > > > On 10/12/05, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am getting a slight headache now ;) how can it be arial if it's > > > chinese > > > > characters? Anyway.... she just asked me to do something else for > her so > > > let > > > > me know if you need more help. Though she doesn't really know fonts > -- > > > she > > > > is more of a business/engineering person. > > > > > > > > Dana > > > > > > > > On 10/12/05, Charlie Griefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > yeah...got it more or less figured out. actually i ended up having > to > > > > > rant about it earlier this morning :) > > > > > > > > > > They (the client) sent me a screenshot of what the page should > look > > > > > like, and specified that the font was PMingLiu (which is included > in > > > > > the MS downloads for Chinese). > > > > > > > > > > Yet, no matter what I did, I couldn't get it to look like the > > > > > screenshot (when I posted here, it was out of desperation because > I > > > > > couldn't figure out why "my" PMingLiu font didn't look like > theirs). > > > > > > > > > > Finally, just for shits and giggles, I try Arial. BINGO! looks > just > > > > > like the screenshot. So I shoot off an email telling them to check > it > > > > > out, and let me know if it's ok, and oh, by the way the font is > Arial. > > > > > They say it looks OK, but can we have a conference call to try and > > > > > fine-tune it. > > > > > > > > > > So last nite I'm at the office late (to accomodate the client who > is > > > > > 12 hours ahead). A few little tweaks and they're thrilled. And I > > > > > say, "now, you realize this is Arial and not PMingLiu, right?" and > > > > > they say, "yes. it looks perfect, thanks.". > > > > > > > > > > Great, right? You'd think...but if you thought that you'd be > wrong. > > > > > > > > > > This morning I come in and find an email in my in box. > > > > > > > > > > >> Charlie: > > > > > > > > > > >> I know we confirmed the font was OK this morning, but is there > a > > > > > reason you >> didn't use PMingLiu? > > > > > > > > > > So we explain (again) that the screenshot that they wanted me to > match > > > > > was using Arial. They'd still like to see a version in PMingLiu. > > > > > > > > > > Yes. that "special" relationship between developers and clients is > a > > > > > global thing :) > > > > > > > > > > Anyway, I appreciate your trying to help out. But it looks like > it's > > > > > sorted. Or not. Maybe :) > > > > > > > > > > Charlie > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 10/12/05, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I take it you got an answer to your chinese question? Just > curious > > > as I > > > > > ran > > > > > > into the girl I sent the document to and she said she could not > open > > > it. > > > > > > > > > > > > Dana > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > In the long run we are all dead. - John Maynard Keynes > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:176874 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
