Ran into a curious issue today... it's not really a problem, at least not for me, but still curious.
Let me establish the parameters first. I'm running XP SP3 with the "extra" fonts (Far Eastern and right-to-left) installed, so it should have a pretty good Unicode font coverage. Not only that, but I have the Code2000 font installed also, which should plug most holes Microsoft left in their coverage. I have the following browsers available: - Seamonkey 2.0.3 (primary browser) - IE 8 (fully patched) - Firefox 3.6 - Opera 10.5 - SRWare Iron 4.0.280 (equivalent to Google Chrome 4) So, I'm fooling around on Wikipedia and opened this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_units_of_measurement The display of the Burmese characters, though, wasn't working right. A few of the characters were replaced by little squares with four hex characters, like on the Unicode BMP Fallback font. Which I had downloaded but not installed, by the way. Tried other browsers, with the following results: - Firefox: identical to SM - Opera: a few *less* Burmese characters displayed correctly. The ones that didn't show were replaced with thin blank rectangles. - IE8: *No* Burmese characters were displayed. Instead, I got blank squares. - Iron: Same results as in IE8. Gecko browsers still got the best results of the lot, so I guess I shouldn't complain (I don't even read non-Latin scripts, I install those extra fonts just because I think the blank characters are ugly). But still, a few things puzzle me: 1. Why Gecko and Opera achieve only *partial* success? Is this a problem with Microsoft fonts? Or does Burmese needs special fonts? All the browsers seemed to display correctly other scripts, such as Thai and Chinese. 2. Where did those fallback glyphs came from? As I said, I don't have the Unicode BMP Fallback font installed, and the other browsers don't show them. Is that a Gecko feature? 3. Even with all those Unicode fonts installed, the page still failed to display correctly in any browser. Yet I imagine that it should be displaying correctly for *someone* -- at the least, the person who wrote the entry. I wonder if this page only works correctly with Oriental versions of Windows? Or Macs, perhaps? Or is something really hosed with my computer? -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... BOFH excuse #91: Mouse chewed through power cable *Added by TagZilla 0.066.2 running on Seamonkey 2.0.3 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
