Am 2000-12-07 um 00:14 h UCT hat John H. Jenkins geschrieben:
> Few in the west would argue over
> the fundamental unity of Fraktur and Roman variations of the Latin
> alphabet; most of the Chinese/Japanese variations are on that order
> or less.
The problem of the original poster was that Netscape 6 mixed characters
from different fonts within a line. I am experiencing similar behaviour
from IE 5.5 with our home page <http://www.rz.uni-konstanz.de> where
the "�" is taken from a font different from the surrounding characters.
This bevaviour is indeed undesired (if not to say ugly and distracting),
even if the difference in font style is much less than Fraktur vs.
Roman.
I think, a decent browser should always choose a single font (or font
family, if large fonts are implemented that way) for a homogeneous
run of text (i. e. sharing all HTML text attributes, including
LANG). Of course, this requires fonts containing all required
characters. If a browser has started to render a run of homogeneous
text in one font and then finds that that font lacks a particular
character available elsewhere, it should start over again, so it
will display homogeneous text in a homogeneous font.
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
