It was really useful.
utf of course is the right choice but i was said to use win1251... :(
If i use just the generic one it really helps. I really appreciate it Philippe.
But the surprise is that after i moved this example to another server(not even changing anything in CSS) everything started to display ok.
I can judge only from iCapture but all the letters are displaying like they should be.
So im just wondering if there were some problems with Apache encodings?
Nevertheless now its ok. Philippe was absolutely right about fonts.
On 6/2/05, Philippe Wittenbergh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1 Jun 2005, at 11:03 pm, akella wrote:
> ive got problems with ukrainian(there are like russian but with 3-4
> national letters) letters on MAC.
>
> [...]
>
> All font-familys(2 of them) looks like this:
> font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
> font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
>
> If u r interested css is here
> http://akella.org.ua/pravda/base.css
> and live example
> here
> http://akella.org.ua/pravda/
>
1/ it wouldn't be a bad idea to use UTF-8, I'm not sure if all
characters are displayed correctly.
2/ you specify a number of fonts in your style sheet; none of those
contain the glyphs those Cyrillic characters. All browsers on OS X
substitute your font-choice with glyphs from another font-family. But
some characters used (line 'i', '?') are included in your specified
font-family, and are displayed according to your choice (noticeable in
both Firefox , Safari/Omniweb and Opera).
3/ one additional problem in Safari and Opera: the font-family the
browser end up using does not contain *bold* glyphs. The browser
doesn't display the text as bold. Firefox attempts to emulate the
bolding on the fly (and the result is - to my eyes - acceptable for
the latest nightly build, but on Firefox 1.04 it is not so great). But
for those characters that are present in your selected font-family,
there is a bold glyph, hence the difference in display in Safari and
Opera.
Solution: don't specify any font-family, only a generic one (like
sans-serif).
Or you could add a font-family that does contain Cyrillic characters,
like 'HelveticaCY'
See this OS X font-list
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301332 >
Philippe
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