[sword-devel] OSIS Web tool - unicode

[Victor Porton]

On 28-Oct-2003 Chris Little wrote:
> 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 BTW, with XHTML 1.1, the lang attribute is no longer valid.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.

Hm, I'm unsure whether xml:lang will work well with CSS because of
namespaces. BTW, as I remember, URL of namespace "xml" is defined in
"Namespaces in XML Specification".

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Victor Porton (porton@ex-code.com; http://ex-code.com)