MCBastos wrote:
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?
Your running into same bug am and another user as well.
I've posted, a bug, another bug was posted a while back much similar and
it was resolved as invalid what amounts to they could get it to do it
so the didn't believe the bug poster. I don't have this problem but just
a once in a while maybe one post a month with SM 1
Seems to affect email more than anything else, and some web pages. News
posting it rare for it to happen. I've tried setting SM Preferences
(Mac) , in edit Mail and news group settings, and in properties of each
individual mail box and news group.
I even have samples:
http://www.phillipmjones.net/SeaMonkeypicture002.png
http://www.phillipmjones.net/SeaMonkeypicture003.png
It getting progressively worse with each update. for me about every 4th
to 6th email has the problem and about 1 out 20 web pages such as
wikipedia that has text show that way.
And another thing I have notice on newsgroups such as this despite the
admonishment to use Plain text and I believe most do some post show real
tiny print while others show normal sized print. I believe maybe the
one that show tiny are being sent by outlook or outlook express.;
because they usually have an attachment which indicates its the
information used to format the text in Outlook, which Macs Can't read.
--
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net http://www.vpea.org
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