On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, James Kass wrote:
>
> The HTML title is displayed in the title bar of the browser.
>
> The font for Windows' title bars can be reset under the
> Control Panel. ( [Start] - [Settings] - [Control Panel] -
> [Display] - [Appearance] - "Item" and "Font" )
>
> Japanese characters can be displayed in the title bar if
> an appropriate font is chosen on Windows 2000.
>
> But, on Windows 9x (and M.E.), the title bars don't seem
> to have any Unicode capability, as they are apparently
> run by the OS, even on applications like the browser
> which are otherwise Unicode-capable. (This is for
> Western versions of the OS...)
Not only in 'Western' version of MS-Windows 9x/ME, but also in
any non-Japanese version of MS-Windows 9x/ME, Japanese title cannot
be displayed in the browser title bar. The other way around, French
titles(except for US-ASCII portion) cannot be displayed properly in any
non-Western-European MS-Windows(non-ISO-8859-1/15/Windows 125? based
MS-Windows). A work-around for MS-WIndows 9x/ME is use a third-party
program like RichWin, Unionway, etc(but that could introduce unexpected
problems)
The same is true of any application running under Unix/X11,
MacOS, Windows NT/2000 when the locale of 'Window manager'(or 'GUI
shell' or whatever you like to call it) does NOT support characters to
be displayed(see <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9449>). In
case of Windows 2000, its 'locale'(of which character encoding/character
set is Unicode) does support Japanese characters (whatever UI language
may have been chosen ). Under Unix/X11, if UTF-8 locale(for whatever
language and country it might be. that is, regardless of whether it's
en_US.utf8,ja_JP.utf8, zh_TW.utf8, fr_CA.utf8, etc) is supported and your
application is compliant to X11 ICCCM standard (and agrees with your
window manager on how to exchange UTF-8 or Unicode strings). MacOS
9 is known to come with 'Language register' to control this on
application-by-application basis (a bit independent of "GUI shell").
Before MacOS 9, there had been a third-party utility that works similarly
to 'language register'. There also used to be a utility called 'script
switcher' that enables users to change the 'locale' of Finder (but
because none of those 'locales' were Unicode-based, the repertoire of
displayable characters was limited. Actually, not just the repertoire but
also the encoding was restrcited to the one used by 'GUI-shell'. Again,
this restriction is 'universal' across the platform)
Jungshik Shin
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