Re: display issue on mac

From: Tom Gewecke (tom@bluesky.org)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 16:35:23 EDT


>Russian characters have an extra spacing on Mac in both browsers (no
>problem on pc).
>T h e c h a r a c t e r s l o o k l I k e t h I s there is no
>actual space between them. I have been testing on OS X using IE 5.1 and
>NS 6.2. This page has the same issue
>http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/translations/russian.html .
>I have spent more than 10 hours trying to figure out the problem, this
>is my last hope.

It's because your browser is using the Japanese Hiragino font, with its
double-width characters, for Cyrillic. Deactivate or remove this and it
should look normal. Only a problem for OS X I believe.



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