Tom S. wrote:
There are separate sets of font preferences for "Western" and "Other
Languages". I'd think UTF-8 would typically use the latter...
I cannot help but feel that the entire population of the drop-down for
Edit / Preferences / Appearances / Fonts / Fonts for
pre-dates the almost universal adoption of Unicode, and is of itself
a quite meaningless dialogue box : all of the languages therein can
be expressed in Unicode, but what the drop-down is /probably/ asking
is "In which code-page is the web page written ?". That being the
case, would it not be far clearer to (a) put US-ASCII at the top,
(b) UTF-8 second, and then list the other languages, glossing each
with one or more encodings in which it is likely to be expressed when
not using Unicode.
For example :
US-ASCII
Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO 10646)
ISO 8859-1 (Western European)
ISO 8859-2 (Central European)
etc.
Philip Taylor
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