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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Why was this feature removed?
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2002-11-29 11:57:54
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Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Thursday 28 November 2002 02:04, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>>Nicolas Goutte wrote:
>>
>>>The font substitution mechanism is quite powerful and would even work
>>>with UTF-8 encoded pages, a case where your proposal would not work.
>>
>>Sure it would.  Mozilla lists, along with the languages, "Unicode".
> 
> 
> How could it work if you cannot display a Japanese page with a Japanese 
> encoding.
> 
> With a page served as UTF-(, you have again the same problem. What font is 
> best for Latin characters, which for Chinese, which for Cyrillic, which 
> for... If you can only choose a font, you have gained nothing. The font 
> substitution permits to choose alternate fonts where the first font has 
> lacks.

I'm not sure that we are understanding each other.

In Mozilla you can select a character encoding to *read* the page with 
-- and they are listed by the names of languages rather than the ISO-.. 
numbers, which is a nice feature.  But, also included in this list is 
Unicode which I presume corresponds to UTF-8.  So, you can select a 
language specific font, or you can select unicode.  I don't know how 
Mozilla handles it internally, but it usually works.

--
JRT


 
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