Talk:Unicode and HTML: Difference between revisions

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::::::My guess is IE does use other fonts from those specified when rendering glyphs but ONLY by mapping specific code points to specific fonts not by searching for a font that can render the charaters it wan'ts. There may well be a configuration controlling this but if there is i don't know where. [[User:Plugwash|Plugwash]] 19:54, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

:::::::I did some more digging and I think what's going on is that it actually does look at other fonts. The problem is that is that those other fonts must be explicitly associated with the current base font in the registry (look for a key containing 'FontLink', like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink). It may be a matter of careful use of language tags in the HTML to make sure a good base font is chosen, and then having the right mappings in the registry to associate that font with the fonts to fall back on. But there are still some nuances to base font selection that I don't understand. Anyone with more experience in this area, please comment! — [[User:Mjb|mjb]] 20:56, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

This sounds promising: per [http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/ IEBlog], Microsoft's Advanced Technology Center in Beijing [http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/22/473159.aspx is working on improvements to font linking and fallback] for IE7. — [[User:Mjb|mjb]] 08:22, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

== Editing Forms and Encoding ==