On 21/11/2004 17:35, Doug Ewell wrote:
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This approach will destroy searching capabilities, and will not ensure proper rendering in any event. The user who has Miriam but not Ezra SIL (or vice versa) will see some Hebrew text rendered properly and some improperly, for no apparent reason. ...
Not true of Ezra SIL, only of SIL Ezra. Sorry to keep repeating myself, but these errors keep being perpetuated.
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(b) code the whole page in the legacy encoding, and provide a link to
Ezra SIL.
Ezra SIL does not use a legacy encoding, it is a Unicode font.
Later, Doug wrote:
I had already corrected the bad information, and Philippe quoted my correction. He simply failed to recognise that "SIL Ezra" != "Ezra SIL". Not my choice of naming conventions, but it is consistent with several SIL fonts: SIL xxx is a legacy encoded version, xxx SIL is the Unicode version of it.This makes things a little clearer: Philippe's bad advice to mix encodings was based on bad information, that doing so would be necessary.
Philippe wrote:
two SIL related fonts: one with legacy encoding (handled in browsers as if it was ISO-8859-1 encoded, so that you need to insert text in the HTML page using only the code points in the Latin-1 page starting at U+0000, even though they do not represent the correct Unicode characters) ...
More bad information. As I already wrote, SIL Ezra is encoded in the PUA and not "as if it was ISO-8859-1 encoded". So this technique will not work.
Mixing SIL Ezra with Arial, or similar Unicode encoded fonts will never produce the intended fallbacks if users don't have SIL Ezra effectively installed and selectable in their browser environment.
Mixing SIL Ezra with Arial, or similar Unicode encoded fonts, is A BAD THING. Period. Don't even think of trying it, especially in HTML. Instead, use Ezra SIL. And use Times New Roman rather than Arial as the fallback because it looks much more similar - or David, which is less similar but gives better results.
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