I'm sorry if my tone was a bit out of sorts - I wasn't in a good mood
yesterday. Your Unicode browser deals no better with the Euro symbol than
any other browser - today neither of them have the correct glyph to
display the character and both will need configuring to work correctly.
If I wish to make lynx work, the configuration is trivial. I add my
ISO8859-0 font to my system and configure xterm to use it - end of story.
If I wish netscape to use it, I select the option to change the default
fonts to use - having added them in the same way as for xterm to the
system. Again, it will just work - end of story.
Netscape builds its fonts up for Unicode from the existing fonts - it
would take a new release of Netscape to know where to pick up the glyph
for it do display it for Unicode.
These are the only two browsers I use, so I can't comment on any others.
Of course all of the above is for someone running UNIX :-)
Regards,
Donald
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Misha Wolf wrote:
> John Wilcock wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 21 Oct 1997 05:48:43 -0700 (PDT), Misha Wolf wrote:
> > >The current tally is:
> > >
> > > Unicode-capable browsers : at least 4 (*)
> > > Latin-0-capable browsers : 0
> > >
> > > * NC 4.0, IE 4.0, Alis's Tango, Accent's Multilingual Mosaic
> > >
> > >Are you suggesting this ratio will, somehow, be reversed?
> >
> > It may be, at least in the short term, since Latin-0 has the advantage
> > (in terms of ease of implementation) of being an *8-bit* character
> > set.
> >
> > Do you have a count for the number of browsers which can display 8-bit
> > ISO-8859-x encodings (where x <> 1), but not multi-octet encodings?
> > [I don't, but I expect that there are many]
>
> I didn't bother responding to the person whose reply started with the
> sentence: "Rubbish." I will respond, briefly, to your mail.
>
> It depends what you mean by "can display". I work for a commercial
> organisation. Our clients use browsers for a living (as well as for fun).
> They don't have the time to mess about with trick fonts or to try each
> entry on the browsers Encoding menu in order to read the page before them.
> The latest HTTP and HTML specs make it clear that browsers should be
> informed, via HTTP or HTTP-EQUIV, of the charset of the page being served
> up. I listed four browsers which: (1) correctly interpret such
> instructions, and (2) understand Unicode. To my knowledge, none of them
> understand the charset "ISO-8859-0". If you know of one, please say so.
>
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