Re: Strange plane 1 behaviour

From: Yung-Fong Tang (ftang@netscape.com)
Date: Mon Jan 07 2002 - 13:40:28 EST


Otto Stolz wrote:

> Tom Gewecke wrote:
>
>> Could you run a test on my Tengwar page?
>> http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/oring.html
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>
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> Netscape 6.2:

Shanjian Li and I are working on fixing these issues on Mozilla. You can
download the latest mozilla daily build from www.mozilla.org to see the
newest fix.

>
> - Plane-1 UTF-8: question marks;
> plane-1 NCRs: wrong characters, mostly CHARACTER TIE, DOUBLE HIGH
> REVERSED 9 QUOTATION MARK and QUESTION MARK and
> other punctuation
> plane-0 PUA UTF-8: Correct Tengwar characters
> - When I set the fonts for both Unicode and User-defined to Code2001:
> no change.
> - When I set the fonts for both Unicode and User-defined to Code2000:
> no change.
> When a character is missing in the selected font, both Netscape 4.7
> and 6 search all available fonts for a suitable glyph.

The last statement is NOT TRUE. Only Netscape 6.x will search all
availabel fonts for a suitable glyph. Netscape 4.7 won't .

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> Best wishes,
> Otto Stolz
>
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