On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 12:02:05AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> I don't care the internal mechanism. However, I think future software
> should be able to display Ideogram (and any other characters) in UTF-8
> locale, whatever font (times, helvetica, ...) the users choose.
> It is one solution that all XFree86 fonts will have Ideogram.
> However, I don't stick to this solution. Usability and conveniency
> (i.e., softwares cannot fail to display Japanese) is my focus.
All XFree86 fonts having ideographs isn't a solution, since people
will want to install fonts that didn't come with XFree86. X could
merge fonts whenever necessary, or everyone could use font sets.
Honestly, I don't see the necessity. If the default fonts are complete
or mostly so, people will only have problems when they switch something
to use the non-default fonts. That's easy to fix - just switch it back.
> For mail: My mail client cannot read Unicode mail.
Why the heck not? There's a number of decent Windows mail clients that
can read Unicode, why use one that's broken in that regard? (Yes,
broken - it's rfc-noncompliant not to understand Unicode mail, and
any decent mail client should understand the basic character sets for
mail, including UTF-8. (And SJIS and KOI8-R and ... but definetly
including UTF-8).
> Though I receive
> tens of Japanese mails everyday from native Japanese speakers, I have
> never received a Unicode mail. Even if I use Unicode-enabled mail
> client, I can easily check the header of the mails.
>
> For web: Mozilla and Internet Explorer has "encoding" menu item.
I know you can check the encoding. Do you really go around checking
the encoding on every page you see?
> And more, Internet Explorer's "view source" menu item invokes
> notepad or wordpad which cannot handle Unicode text.
Are you sure? I know Windows NT and I believe Window ME (98?) can
handle Unicode in notepad and wordpad just fine. (
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