I agree, that is the right thing to do. What wasn't clear from his message
is whether Mozilla picks a reasonable font if the language is not there.
Since NN didn't do this in the past, I was wondering whether that has been
improved.
Mark
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Subject: Re: Transcriptions of "Unicode"
> Hi Mark,
>
> You're right, but I believe what Erik is saying is that you can get
> Japanese-looking characters to be *preferred* over Chinese-looking
> characters (where fonts drawn in both styles are available) by using a
> LANG attribute for a specific page or SPAN. This could increase the
> acceptance of using UTF-8 as a page encoding in Asia....
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Addison
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> On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Mark Davis wrote:
>
> > Won't Modzilla pick fonts based on character code? The only ones in the
list
> > that couldn't be deduced from that would be the Yiddish and the Chinese.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Erik van der Poel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 22:46
> > Subject: Re: Transcriptions of "Unicode"
> >
> >
> > > Cool. Now if you also add LANG attributes, Mozilla/Netscape 6 will use
> > > the fonts that have been set up for those languages. E.g.:
> > >
> > > <span lang="ja" title="Japanese">...</span>
> > >
> > > Erik
> > >
> > > Mark Davis wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Done.
> > > >
> > > > From: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > >
> > > > > I would suggest adding a <span title="{insert lang name}"></title>
> > > > >
> > > > > > Mark Davis wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > http://www.macchiato.com/unicode/Unicode_transcriptions.html
> > >
> >
> >
>
