From: Richard Ishida (ishida@w3.org)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2006 - 02:02:52 CST
> I know this is overlapping into Web site development but I
> have yet to find a good forum for this discussion, until now
> of course. ;o) Thank you once again for all your help.
You could also try www-international@w3.org
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/
RI
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
> [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Robert Kidd
> Sent: 18 December 2006 23:38
> To: unicode@unicode.org
> Subject: Re: Unicode or specific language charset
>
> First of all, thank you Ken, Addison, and Doug for the
> helpful push toward Unicode. I have a question for you Ken
> (and others if you wish).
> You said:
>
> >Note that not having appropriate
> >fonts to display unusual languages with strange scripts is a problem
> >*whether or not* you encode the translated material in Unicode.
>
> I assume you mean that this is a user/translator/browser
> issue which we can do nothing about and which I don't think
> will be a serious problem since the translators will
> presumably have the ability to read, write and view pages in
> their source language and target language and the users
> (potential clients browsing for a translator) will 1) be able
> to read the pages in their own language and 2) if their
> computer is not set up to display the language then they most
> likely cannot read the language and therefore it makes not difference.
>
> I also assume that if the user's machine does not have the
> correct fonts they will receive a notification of this and be
> asked to install the font from the CD?
>
>
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