On 12/18/00 5:42 PM, "Eric Hildum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At a guess, the message is encoded as utf-8, which means unicode. However,
> the font you are using to display the message is not a complete unicode font
> (i.e. does not contain a character glyph for every possible unicode
> character) so it is possible that some portions of the message are not
> displayable. Most of the time, the fonts used on English language versions
> of the operating system contain glyphs only for the Latin-1 character set.
> In your case, the message only contained characters that your selected font
> could display, so you were safe.
Actually, in the preferences, you specify a font for each script. For
Unicode messages, it will break it into a series of script runs and use the
font you specify in the prefs for each font.
As an example, here's some Korean - �¤���. I don't know Korean, so it's
complete gibberish :-)
> As an example, you might have trouble with the following for most default
> installations: ����������ުǪ���This is a mix of hiragana and kanji. If you
> install the Japanese language kit, you will be able to see, and print, the
> message correctly (and if you can read Japanese, you could read it!).
This message has both Korean and Japanese and should show up correctly. If
you don't have one of the scripts installed, you'll see ?'s instead of the
Korean or Japanese, and you'll get the warning about some text in a language
that can't be displayed.
Dan
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