Lachlan Hunt writes:
Sarah Peeke (XERT) wrote:
Firefox and Safari on the Mac seem to have a default which allows the
Japanese to be read. However, I noticed that good ol' Windows IE6
doesn't automatically render other languages and that its preferences
needed to be changed etc.
actually IE on Windows will render (if you have configured your Windows for
Japanese support - assuming you are using a non-Japanese localised version
of Windows). For that matter Firefox on Windows or Opera on Windows will
have exactly the same problem. If the user hasn't enabled Windows language
support, then none of the Windows based browsers will support the language.
WinNT4/2000/XP require OS anguage enablement. Each supports a different
range of languages. On the older versions of windows its more an issue of
where you got your version of IE, some versions came with the IE language
packs and global IMEs installed by default, some came with them as a custom
install. Some versions came without language packs at all. Really depended
what IE components people built into distributions of IE when they used the
IE resource kit to make customised installations.
In Windows Vista since Microsoft has seen the light and will automatically
enable all languages in the core.
It's probably a font related issue. IIRC, if none of the fonts specified
in the font-family property contain the glyphs for those characters, IE
won't find and display them. You may be able to improve the situation by
including the following:
font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif;
But then Arial unicode MS will not be available unless the user has done a
customised install of Microosft Office and enabled Office's international
support.
Here's an article I found that discusses this issue.
http://girtby.net/archives/2005/10/07/internet-explorer-makes-me/
ummm ... a few things missing from the blog entry.
Andrew Cunningham
Multicultural Officer
Public Libraries Unit, Vicnet
State Library of Victoria
Australia
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