Edward Cherlin wrote: > >Pahawh Hmong.. PUA... HTML... > >... Inappropriate line breaks are one problem. > > I gather you have tried it. Could you provide an example? HTML code, > and images of what it should look like and what some browser does to > it? If you have a freely distributable font, I would like a copy or a > pointer to a download site as well. > -- Yes, this was tried in March of 2000 on Win 95. Opened the test HTML file again this morning on Win ME. The same display problems exist. I'd found a Hmong web site which used the RPA system orthography and wrote a simple (DOS-based) program to convert the web page into Pahawh Hmong using a PUA scheme. Testing was abandoned due to the display issues. Lines break irregularly in MSIE 5.5, perhaps due to the difference between the actual advance widths which would comprise a line and the average advance width based precalculation which the browser 'thinks' will make a full line. Close to 50% of the characters in a run of text here will be zero-width combiners, and this could easily skew any precalculation. However, the space character is ignored for line breaks, the rime is broken arbitrarily. In some cases a line break is inserted between the combining diacritic and its base letter. The web page which was converted is copyrighted material, and I don't have anyone's permission to use it. I am forwarding a copy of the converted page to Edward Cherlin off-list along with the request that the page not be distributed. If anyone would like to see the RPA Hmong web site, you don't need any special fonts, it's conformant: The home page with links in Hmong and English: http://www.hmongnet.org/ and a direct link to the index page in Hmong: http://www.hmongnet.org/inhmong/index.html Best regards, James Kass.
