From: Frank da Cruz (fdc@columbia.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 12 2006 - 12:28:40 CST
Just installed IE7 on a computer where I also have a large variety of
Unicode fonts (including Code 2000 and 2001), and where, in both IE6
and FireFox, my UTF8 sample page:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html
comes out almost perfectly (the only characters that don't show up
correctly are the Gothic ones).
In IE7, there is a lot of breakage:
. In the currency symbols at the top of the page
. The ever-problematic yogh character in Middle English
. In the "I can eat glass" section:
3. Classical Greek: 7 characters missing
29. Romanian: 2 missing
40. Middle English - yogh
42. IPA - 6 missing
45. Gothic - still completely nonfunctional
105. Twi - 2 missing
108. Yoruba - 1 missing
114. Burmese/Myanmar: completely broken
116. Vietnames Nom: 3 missing
119. Mongolian: completely broken
127. Hawaiian: some missing
128. Marquesan: ditto
130. Navajo: ditto
and so on. Plus in other pages, where I often use glyphs such as ▶
(right-pointing black triangle) for navigation arrows, these are all broken
too.
Now I'm sure there is some fiddling I could do to compensate, but why must
every user on the planet go through the same discovery process or, worse,
dismiss perfectly good web pages because they aren't "IE7 compliant".
I suppose we'll be hearing a lot about IE7 in the coming weeks; it certainly
seems to break a lot of stuff. One example I thought was kind of funny...
when validating pages at the W3C Validation Service, one often gets
nonsensical complaints like "document type does not allow element 'blah'
here" unless it's inside something like an OBJECT. To shut up the
complaints I would dutifully put <object>...</object> around the offending
constructions. It seems IE7 doesn't like <objects> one bit! It displays
them as a little blob.
- Frank
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