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List:       wikitech-l
Subject:    Re: [Wikitech-l] Unicode and polices
From:       Richard Grevers <lists () dramatic ! co ! nz>
Date:       2003-05-28 20:48:30
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On Tue, 27 May 2003 12:32:19 +0900, Guillaume Blanchard 
<gblanchard@arcsy.co.jp> gave utterance to the following:

<older attribution for the >> was snipped by Guillaume>
>> So...perhaps I understood nothing, but do you think
>> Opera 5 is not accepting unicode because of missing
>> polices or does it just not tolerate it at all ?

>
> I think there are both problem. Even if your browser can handle unicode, 
> you
> can't see caracters not defined in your font. I'm using MS Arial Unicode
> with IE6.0 and I still not be able to see 100% of unicode characters. In 
> my
> case I think it's only a font problem. You can go to this page and look 
> at
> what percentage of caracters you can see :
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html (it's a UTF8 sample page).
>
Opera 5 has no unicode support - Opera 6 was the unicode rewrite.
Both Opera (6+) and Mozilla support unicode natively - the only thing you 
have to do to get it working is to install an appropriate font.
However, even if you have the font, IE doesn't display some writing systems 
until you "install support" by downloading a large patch to your operating 
system. (A fully multilingual installation of IE6 weighs in at around 85MB)

-- 
Richard Grevers
I hate Victor Hugo said Les miserably



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