[sword-devel] OSIS Web tool - unicode

[Chris Little]

Whatever needs to be done, the current situation is pretty unbearable. 
I'm guess that any module encoded as UTF-8 is being rendered with Code 
2000--which looks horrible for Latin.  Since our goal (with Sword) is to 
get all data into Latin, this is a problem that's going to get worse 
with time.  It's also just a generally bad solution since Code 2000 
doesn't encode all of the codepoints we use in all UTF-8 encoded 
modules.  (So we're forcing people to use a font that is frequently 
incompatible with the module or unattractive to the point of not being 
readable.)  Letting the browser figure out which font to use worked a 
lot better for me under Windows (which, let's face it, most of the 
target audience will be using).

BTW, with XHTML 1.1, the lang attribute is no longer valid.  xml:lang 
must be used instead.

--Chris


Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote:
> Hugo,
> 
> I agree. Ideally we would use the lang attribute. however, if I understand
> correctly, browser support is very limited for it. Using a class in the
> meantime seems to be the preferred practice.
> 
> by grace alone,
> 
> Don A. Elbourne Jr.
> http://elbourne.org
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Hugo van der Kooij" <hvdkooij@vanderkooij.org>
> To: <sword-devel@crosswire.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 6:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Web tool - unicode
> 
> 
> 
>>On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote:
>>
>>
>>>My suggestions is that we wrap any text needing a particular Unicode
> 
> font
> 
>>>with a span and give that span a class attribute that matches the
> 
> language
> 
>>>code. For example <span class="he"> for Hebrew. This will be more
>>>semantically rich and forward compatible. We can then specify the
> 
> Unicode
> 
>>>font in the CSS.
>>
>>If my interpretation of the HTML specs are correctly we should use
>>something like:
>>
>><span class="verse" lang=he">
>>
>>See also:
>>http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-SPAN
>>http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#idx-lang_attribute
>>
>>Hugo.
>>
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