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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Why was this feature removed?
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2002-11-29 14:59:49
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On Friday 29 November 2002 12:57, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 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

Sorry, it should read UTF-8

> > 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

Konqueror (as browser) lists both: languages and encoding codes

> 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.

I suppose that it does it the same was as Konqueror. As I am not sure how it 
does it, I will not write it here.

Have a nice day/evening/night!

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