Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Web tool - unicode

[Chris Little]

Whatever needs to be done, the current situation is pretty unbearable. 
I'm guess that any module encoded as UTF-8 is being rendered with Code 
2000--which looks horrible for Latin.  Since our goal (with Sword) is to 
get all data into Latin, this is a problem that's going to get worse 
with time.  It's also just a generally bad solution since Code 2000 
doesn't encode all of the codepoints we use in all UTF-8 encoded 
modules.  (So we're forcing people to use a font that is frequently 
incompatible with the module or unattractive to the point of not being 
readable.)  Letting the browser figure out which font to use worked a 
lot better for me under Windows (which, let's face it, most of the 
target audience will be using).

BTW, with XHTML 1.1, the lang attribute is no longer valid.  xml:lang 
must be used instead.

--Chris

Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote:
Hugo,

I agree. Ideally we would use the lang attribute. however, if I understand
correctly, browser support is very limited for it. Using a class in the
meantime seems to be the preferred practice.
by grace alone,

Don A. Elbourne Jr.
http://elbourne.org
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From: "Hugo van der Kooij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Web tool - unicode



On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote:


My suggestions is that we wrap any text needing a particular Unicode
font

with a span and give that span a class attribute that matches the
language

code. For example <span class="he"> for Hebrew. This will be more
semantically rich and forward compatible. We can then specify the
Unicode

font in the CSS.
If my interpretation of the HTML specs are correctly we should use
something like:
<span class="verse" lang=he">

See also:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-SPAN
http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#idx-lang_attribute
Hugo.

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