Daniel wrote:
Would I be correct to think that if I change the "Font for:" to
something else, I might change the group of characters that might be
displayed, whilst if I changed the serif, I would be changing the shape
of the characters displayed??
I cannot tell from your description whether you're right or wrong. ;-)
As I said, "Fonts for:" lists encodings, while "Serif", "Sans-serif" and
"Monospace" are typefaces.
If you have a very simple website which doesn't specify any styling
through CSS or font tags, then you'd typically get headings rendered
using a sans-serif font like Arial or Helvetica, and all the rest
rendered using a serif font like Times.
A typical but older en-US website would probably use an encoding like
ISO-8859-1, also known as ISO Latin 1. This is equivalent to the
"Western" option of the "Fonts for:" list. A more modern website would
use Unicode instead (e.g. UTF-8), which currently relates to the "Other
Languages" option. Both kinds of websites, though using different
encodings, could make use of the same typefaces (e.g. sans-serif and
serif). For full flexibility, the user (you) may choose which fonts to
use for any combination of encoding and typeface. This is what the Fonts
preferences pane allows you to select.
In neither the "Fonts for:" nor "Typeface" drop-downs do I see Unicode
listed, so how does it fit in.....or is this set on my computer rather
than with-in SM??
Actually that's exactly what the discussion that Philip started is all
about. Currently, at least with an en-US build, there is no option that
reads "Unicode". But there is one named "Other Languages" (under "Fonts
for:"), which in fact is Unicode, just mislabeled.
HTH
Jens
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Jens Hatlak <http://jens.hatlak.de/>
SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker <http://smtt.blogspot.com/>
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