[sword-devel] OSIS Web tool - unicode

[Don A. Elbourne Jr.]

Chris,

I think you are right. That's what I was saying. I think we just need the
UTF-8 meta tag in the page. I don't think the meta tag is absolutely
necessary, but it is best practice afaik.

by grace alone,

Don A. Elbourne Jr.
http://elbourne.org



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Little" <chrislit@crosswire.org>
To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Web tool


>
>
> Joachim Ansorg wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >>I have not worked with Unicode in web pages much so I admit my
ignorance.
> >>Chris investigated this a while back and I thought he had added the
> >>document encoding in the meta tag. But I don't see it now.
> >
> >
> > Yes, that's fine. That is for the browser to see that the page is in
uTF8.
> > But if "foreign" chars like Hebrew appear in the page we have to make
the text
> > use a special unicode font which has all the required unicode
characters. So
> > I wrap the unicode text with a span and set the right font-family there.
> > Often unicode needs a larger font-size because unicode chars are hard to
see
> > if it's hebrew or something similair.
>
> Don & Joachim,
>
> Is this really necessary?  (Have you seen text displayed incorrectly
> using a browser?)
>
> Font selection is essentially the browser's job.  I'm not sure if that's
> necessarily so, but both MSIE and Mozilla select fonts on the basis of
> scripts used in a document.
>
> If we need to do something more complex, since we have ICU at our
> disposal, we can tag strings of text as using specific scripts, then
> specify fonts in the CSS on that basis.
>
> --Chris
>
>
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