Re: Devanagari on MacOS 9.2 and IE 5.1

[Yung-Fong Tang]

It should be fine also on Netscape 6.2

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I spoke to fast. Upon taking a closer look at the file, the font was not set properly. MacOS 9.2, Indian Language Kit, Mac IE 5.1 and Devanagari MT as font face seem to display UTF-8 encoded Hindi just fine.

Etienne

Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:24:16 -0800
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RE: Devanagari

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

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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

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Christopher J Fynn
Thimphu, Bhuta
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To: James Kass; Unicode
Subject: Re: Devanagari


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To: "Aman Chawla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Unicode"
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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?

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