On Saturday 12 October 2002 00:59, C Bobroff wrote: > > 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.
Well, fonts don't work the same way for me as I am using GNU/Linux. But as long as you use UTF-8 I will be able to seem them; most probably in another font, than the one you specify in your HTML or the one you use. > 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.) A combination of operating system, font and browser. At least it was this way. Things are getting better. Actually the FariWeb project was supposed to release some TTF fonts. Does anyone have an idea what the status is? > 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. Yes, GNU/Linux and KDE are real. > > 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. Have a look at www.farsikde.org if you are searching for a model :) (just to note that these pages exist) Also feel free to ask on this list, me or somebody else from this list. Most people will be able to help with this. [...] > 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. Well, I am sitting in a country where a lot of people have a lot of fonts loaded, but that doesn't help me, because I cannot load those fonts on GNU/Linux, at least most of the time. So I have to look that it works without no-standard solutions. And the standard is UTF-8. [...] > 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. Oh, yes, you get and deserve credit. Consider this just a healthy discussion :) Please send me the URL of your site again. I will take a look at your HTML source. Maybe we can cleanup something in a more automated way. > 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 :) :) You are sitting in the same boat as me at that time. How to make an "exotic" script/language available to those, who don't have the necessary tools. Greetings, Arash _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
