Re: Strange plane 1 behaviour

From: James Kass (jameskass@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Dec 31 2001 - 18:47:38 EST


Lars Marius Garshol wrote,

>
> |
> | Just for the record: for Opera 6.0 it makes no difference how you
> | encode the characters. They can be NCRs, encoded in UTF-8, or
> | encoded in UTF-16.
>
>
> They display on my machine. I've had problems getting them to display
> on some other machines, even Windows 2000 machines, and I am not sure
> what it is that makes the OS display these characters on some
> machines, and not others.
>
> Could you let me know (off-list) what Windows version you are running,
> whether you've enabled surrogate display in the registory, and what
> fonts with support for non-BMP characters you've installed? That would
> be helpful in working out what, exactly, it is that needs to be
> enabled for this to work.
>

Done.

Meanwhile installed Opera 6.0 on Windows 2000. It is a pleasure
to report that Opera handles Plane One both as NCR and as UTF-8
on Windows 2000.

As far as I know, Opera is the only browser which can make that
claim.

Best regards (and best wishes for the new year),

James Kass.



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