Re: relation between unicode and font

2001-01-08 Thread Peter_Constable
On 01/08/2001 11:09:00 AM "Michael \(michka\) Kaplan" wrote: >I am hesitant to even call it user error. > >Its not like the person who does not have another option when it comes to >sending Tamil e-mail from their Windows 98 machine really has a choice. > >The USER is doing the best they can wit

Re: relation between unicode and font

2001-01-08 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
: Re: relation between unicode and font > > On 01/06/2001 12:50:00 AM Jukka Korpela wrote: > > >It's still a browser bug if the document is declared or implied to be > >ISO 8859-1 encoded and A B causes something > >else than A B to be displayed. > > A gove

Re: relation between unicode and font

2001-01-08 Thread Peter_Constable
On 01/06/2001 12:50:00 AM Jukka Korpela wrote: >It's still a browser bug if the document is declared or implied to be >ISO 8859-1 encoded and A B causes something >else than A B to be displayed. A government or industry agency can provide specifications related to the composition of gasoline,

Re: relation between unicode and font

2001-01-05 Thread Jukka Korpela
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 11:59:27 -0800 (GMT-0800), you wrote: >With that said, this type of "bug" is actually by design for many languages >that have speakers who are not using Unicode. When you look (for example) at >Indic languages on the web, the vast majority of them are handled by this >type font

[OT] Re: relation between unicode and font

2001-01-05 Thread Andrew Cunningham
L PROTECTED]> To: Unicode List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Unicode List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 6:29 AM Subject: Re: relation between unicode and font > Not really a browser bug. It is a bug in the FONT. Some of the font > basically claim they are design for

Re: relation between unicode and font

2001-01-05 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 11:29 AM Subject: Re: relation between unicode and font > Not really a browser bug. It is a bug in the FONT. Some of the font > basically claim they are

Re: relation between unicode and font

2001-01-05 Thread Yung-Fong Tang
Not really a browser bug. It is a bug in the FONT. Some of the font basically claim they are design for a certain encoding which 0x00-0x7F represent ASCII while the glyph in that font in those position have shape in non ASCII. If font author *lie* to browser, in the information which encoded i

Re: relation between unicode and font

2001-01-05 Thread Jukka . Korpela
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, sreekant wrote: > A B is being shown as some telugu > characters. That's basically a browser bug, though some people have seen it as a method of extending character repertoire. It has absolutely nothing to do with Unicode. For an explanation of the fallacy, see http://ppewww

relation between unicode and font

2001-01-05 Thread sreekant
hi, What is the relation between unicode and font? I have visited a telugu website where the values are being stored as plain english letters in VIEW SOURCE (charset being used is windows-1252). but the characters being rendered on the browser are telugu characters. A B is being shown as some