Re: Pb with Unicode Tifinagh with Internet Explorer

From: Damon Anderson (damon@corigo.com)
Date: Tue May 26 2009 - 01:10:51 CDT

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    I'm late to this conversation but opened the html file below in:

    1. Safari - boxes
    2. IE 8 - boxes
    3. Opera 9.x and 10 alpha - boxes
    4. Chrome - boxes
    5. Firefox - characters
    6. OpenOffice - boxes

    I would have to say Firefox is the clear winner in this case. Something is
    definately better than nothing... and I hate Firefox.

    -Damon

    P.S. Long live Opera.

    On Tue, 26 May 2009 11:33:20 +0700, Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org> wrote:

    > Andrew Cunningham wrote:
    >
    >>> Read Jukka's reply again. IE and Firefox use different mechanisms to
    >>> figure out which font to use. In the case of Tifinagh at least,
    >>> Firefox's mechanism works better than IE's.
    >>
    >> depends on your point of view. Firefox's approach is fairly haphazard,
    >> and can result in very ugly ransom note effects.
    >
    > It does in some other cases, but *in the case of Tifinagh*, the choice
    > is between seeing Tifinagh letters and seeing boxes. Try feeding the
    > HTML below to both browsers. Note the absence of CSS and other
    > "typography" hints. (Disclaimer: I have Code2000 installed.)
    >
    > <html><head><title>Tifinagh</title></head><body><p>
    > &#x2D35;&nbsp;&#x2D36;&nbsp;&#x2D37;&nbsp;&#x2D38;&nbsp;&#x2D39;
    > </p></body></html>
    >
    > I'm not a Firefox zealot, and definitely don't want to get involved in
    > Browser Wars. I'm just seeing what I'm seeing.
    >
    > --
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    >
    > 

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