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List:       mozilla-i18n
Subject:    Re: NETSCAPE & LATIN-3
From:       ftang () netscape ! com (Yung-Fong Tang)
Date:       1999-05-24 7:40:16
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Momoi:
Please help to coordinate...

Bertil Wennergren wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Dario Rodriguez has told me that you need help testing the
> Latin 3 support in Gecko. I would be glad to help. I watch
> the Gecko progress with great interest and I would relly like
> to see good i18n support in this very promising project.
>
> I downloaded M5 and tried to run it on my Windows 98 system.
> This was not easy. The program crashes all the time. It seems
> to be impossible to type in any URLs, or do anything keyboardish,
> without causing a crash. So I have had a hard time getting any
> testing done at all. I tried to navigate to my own site (that
> has Latin 3 pages) without being able to type in URLs or searching
> with AltaVista. Through strange wanderings I did finally succeed.
>
> My ordinary pages are basically in Unicode and they seem to work
> well in M5, but I could not get to the Latin 3 versions of them
> since that requires access to a form, which does not work, at
> least not without JavaScript - and trying to turn on JavaScript
> of course caused a crash. I have however a few special test
> pages all in Latin 3, and I was able to get to them without
> any crash. No luck though. The following page has a nice table
> of Latin 3, but it was displayed as Latin 1.
>
> <http://www.concinnity.se/bertilow/cgi-bin/m.cgi?d=html/signokodoj/latino3.htm>
>
> At the end of the page there is a gif-picture of the table as it
> is supposed to look.
>
> The page is actually in XHTML, but that shouldn't be a problem for
> Gecko, should it?
>
> I tried to have a look at my Latin 2 test page, but - Gecko crashed...
>
> I really can't do much more testing since the program is so unstable.
>
> I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have, and to try to help
> in any other way. Feel free to write me.
>
> Bye for now!
>
> =====================================================================
>                          Bertilo Wennergren
>                      <bertilow@hem1.passagen.se>
>                   <http://purl.oclc.org/net/bertilo>
> =====================================================================
>

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