Chris, I think you are right. That's what I was saying. I think we just need the UTF-8 meta tag in the page. I don't think the meta tag is absolutely necessary, but it is best practice afaik.
by grace alone, Don A. Elbourne Jr. http://elbourne.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Web tool > > > Joachim Ansorg wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, > > > > > >>I have not worked with Unicode in web pages much so I admit my ignorance. > >>Chris investigated this a while back and I thought he had added the > >>document encoding in the meta tag. But I don't see it now. > > > > > > Yes, that's fine. That is for the browser to see that the page is in uTF8. > > But if "foreign" chars like Hebrew appear in the page we have to make the text > > use a special unicode font which has all the required unicode characters. So > > I wrap the unicode text with a span and set the right font-family there. > > Often unicode needs a larger font-size because unicode chars are hard to see > > if it's hebrew or something similair. > > Don & Joachim, > > Is this really necessary? (Have you seen text displayed incorrectly > using a browser?) > > Font selection is essentially the browser's job. I'm not sure if that's > necessarily so, but both MSIE and Mozilla select fonts on the basis of > scripts used in a document. > > If we need to do something more complex, since we have ICU at our > disposal, we can tag strings of text as using specific scripts, then > specify fonts in the CSS on that basis. > > --Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
