('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is)
On this subject, Win2K and IE5+ seem to do a nice job displaying UTF8-encoded Hindi. On the Mac, the Indian Language Kit provides for OS support and fonts (with MacOS 9.2 and above), but I have not been able to display Hindi (UTF8 encoded) with Mac's IE 5.1. Am I correct in assuming that the Mac version of IE does not support Hindi without a hack?
Etienne
>Reply-To: <cfynn@druknet.net.bt>
> "Christopher J Fynn" <cfynn@druknet.net.bt> <unicode@unicode.org>Cc: "Aman Chawla" <creativezeal@hotmail.com>
> RE: DevanagariDate: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 23:59:38 +0600
>
>Aman
>
>Here in Bhutan the Internet connection is still much worse than in most
>places I've visited in India & Nepal (and the cost per minute is several
>times higher) - believe me even then UTF-8 (or UTF-16) encoded pages do not
>display noticeably slower than ASCII, ISCII or 8-bit font encoded pages -
>and I don't need to download any special plug-ins or fonts.
>
>- Chris
>
>--
>Christopher J Fynn
>Thimphu, Bhutan
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
>> Behalf Of Aman Chawla
>> Sent: 21 January 2002 10:57
>> To: James Kass; Unicode
>> Subject: Re: Devanagari
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "James Kass" <jameskass@worldnet.att.net>
>> To: "Aman Chawla" <creativezeal@hotmail.com>; "Unicode"
>> <unicode@unicode.org>
>> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 12:46 AM
>> Subject: Re: Devanagari
>>
>>
>> > 25% may not be 300%, but it isn't insignificant. As you note, if the
>> > mark-up were removed from both of those files, the percentage of
>> > increase would be slightly higher. But, as connection speeds continue
>> > to improve, these differences are becoming almost minuscule.
>>
>> With regards to South Asia, where the most widely used modems are
>> approx. 14
>> kbps, maybe some 36 kbps and rarely 56 kbps, where broadband/DSL is mostly
>> unheard of, efficiency in data transmission is of paramount importance...
>> how can we convince the south asian user to create websites in an encoding
>> that would make his client's 14 kbps modem as effective (rather,
>> ineffective) as a 4.6 kbps modem?
>>
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