Tex Texin had written:
> IE likes plane 1 characters only as NCRs (&#xXXXXX;).
Lars Marius Garshol wrote:
> 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.
I have tested three browsers with the example page
<http://www.geocities.com/i18nguy/unicode-example-plane1.html>,
which comprises NCRs of plane 1 characters.
I have used Windows XP Professional Version 5.1 [German] (Build
2600.xpclient.010817-1148). I had installed the Code2001 font,
and set the three registry keys described in that example page.
Results:
- MS Internet Explorer 6.0.2600.0000.xpclient.010817-1148 [German]:
All plane-1 characters are displayed, in the correct writing
direction.
- Opera version 6.0, Build 101 [German] without Java support:
The plane-1 characters are not correctly displayed;
rather, a row of boxes is displayed (only recognizable in
120% zoom, or larger). There are roughly (but not exactly)
2 boxes per plane-1 character, viz:
"Rasna" -> 12 boxes, "Aulesi" -> 15 boxes, "Metelis" -> 13 boxes
(judging from the word separator, which is displayed correctly);
"Utah","Brigham", "Young", "žizai", "žiudangardjai", "žize",
"Gutane", and "Wulfila" all have exactly twice as many boxes as
there are characters in these words.
The writing direction is correct.
- Netscape 6.2 [English]:
The Deseret characters are replaced with Cyrillic ones;
the Etruscan and Gothic words are replaced with some
unrecognicable blots (possibly some glyphs overlayed).
The writing direction is correct.
This means that Opera 6.0 does not display plane-1 characters, in
all environments.
On the Opera download pages, I could not find anything dubbed "6.01b".
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
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