On this subject, Win2K and IE5+ seem to do a nice job displaying UTF8-encoded Hindi. On the Mac, the Indian Language Kit provides for OS support and fonts (with MacOS 9.2 and above), but I have not been able to display Hindi (UTF8 encoded) with Mac's IE 5.1. Am I correct in assuming that the Mac version of IE does not support Hindi without a hack?
Etienne >Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Christopher J Fynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: "Aman Chawla" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > RE: DevanagariDate: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 23:59:38 +0600 > >Aman > >Here in Bhutan the Internet connection is still much worse than in most >places I've visited in India & Nepal (and the cost per minute is several >times higher) - believe me even then UTF-8 (or UTF-16) encoded pages do not >display noticeably slower than ASCII, ISCII or 8-bit font encoded pages - >and I don't need to download any special plug-ins or fonts. > >- Chris > >-- >Christopher J Fynn >Thimphu, Bhutan > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >> Behalf Of Aman Chawla >> Sent: 21 January 2002 10:57 >> To: James Kass; Unicode >> Subject: Re: Devanagari >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "James Kass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Aman Chawla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Unicode" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 12:46 AM >> Subject: Re: Devanagari >> >> >> > 25% may not be 300%, but it isn't insignificant. As you note, if the >> > mark-up were removed from both of those files, the percentage of >> > increase would be slightly higher. But, as connection speeds continue >> > to improve, these differences are becoming almost minuscule. >> >> With regards to South Asia, where the most widely used modems are >> approx. 14 >> kbps, maybe some 36 kbps and rarely 56 kbps, where broadband/DSL is mostly >> unheard of, efficiency in data transmission is of paramount importance... >> how can we convince the south asian user to create websites in an encoding >> that would make his client's 14 kbps modem as effective (rather, >> ineffective) as a 4.6 kbps modem? >> ------------------------------------------------------------ Hot After Christmas DEALS on just about everything! http://www.smartshop.com/cgi-bin/main.cgi?ssa=4099
