> From your comments about the Konqueror snapshot, that I had sent, I > understood, that it comes close to what you wanted. That's right. Only I just wasn't sure whether my font of choice wasn't working because you didn't install it or because it was not possible for technical reasons. That is really great that Konqueror is able to display the diacritics just like IE and NS 4.x (although I'm still not clear if that is a font thing or a browser thing.) Actually, I didn't even know Konqueror existed until I got the screenshots from you guys which I really appreciate and I thank you for enlightening me.
> But if everythign else was OK, why do you wan to use Weft? I want to use Weft because, I, newbie, technically unsavvy with much difficulty managed to get some sort of Persian website up and running which at least 80% of the people can use. That is a big acheivement for me because I could not find any help so just did the best I could. There is not a whole lot of info to be found on Persian webdev and no actual websites to use as models. (Someone privately emailed me to look at BBC who has a staff of hundreds for just the website alone. They've done their Persian pages with Frontpage, there are no diacritics anywhere even though their news reports contain a lot of foreign names which require the short vowels to know how to pronounce and they even have a notice that says "no Macs".) I hope others will learn from my mistakes and maybe next time, I will also know where I can improve and what is possible, and what is impossible. My immediate problem is that most of my users are in the US and Europe and are not used to having to download and install a font and the default font (Times New Roman) is not acceptable. Therefore if I can use Weft, that problem is solved. > I used Weft some years back to embed Tamil fonts into HTML pages and all the > scholars really liked it, but I didn't, because it was not working with every > Tamil font. I don't know what the problem was. I understand the Weft problems with Tamil have been solved (because the letters stand in isolation) but there are still problems with other Indic languages like Hindi which are hanging from the bar (rekha) and they've been getting a space between each character. Maybe you can try again now with Tamil. > But if you can do whatever you want to do with Unicode, that is really the > recommended way. I have used Unicode encoding on my site. I think we're talking about font problems here and I think the thing is that you may be sitting in a country where people already have a dozen Persian fonts loaded on their computer or are used to the procedure of installing them, but over here, hardly anyone (especially my target users) has Persian fonts and can not or will not install. You are a technical person and yes, Arial and Times NR are fine as functional fonts but they do not suit the content of my site. :) > Don't make a webpage that keeps Free Software users out :) Well, give me credit for going to great lengths to at least make my site ok in Netscape 4.6. (I saw that at least the diacritics worked with that.) In the end I not only failed to make it work in NS 4.6 but also added a lot of junk code which, if I get around to it, I'll clean up. I'm having the same experience as you with your Tamil: the scholars are ecstatic and don't cease to send compliments while the technical people treat me like a criminal :) Anyhow, that's nice to be able to discuss these things a little so thanks for your comments. -Connie _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
