Talk:Unicode and HTML: Difference between revisions

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::::: It's still a bit guesswork, so some tests or a really knowledgeable source is needed. My current hypothesis: MSIE/Win can mix different fonts on page, using explicit fonts and (I suppose lang tags). And (IMHO) it looks at the actual characters, but not to find a font really including them (I'd say it never asks a font which characters it supports), but only to switch to the correct "block". A chinese character will switch it to the font configured for chinese (without looking whether that character is really included), but an m-underdot, if at all, only switches to the standard Unicode font. Sorry for the confusion, but at least, I haven't programmed it. --[[User:Pjacobi|Pjacobi]] 22:52, 2005 Jan 21 (UTC)

== "IE5 was the first to use glyphs from 'best available' fonts" ==

Mjb, I don't know what Microsoft calls it, but it doesn't pick the right fonts to display all the characters on the page, the way other modern browsers do.

You'll notice that in many places in Wikipedia editors have added code like <code>style="font-family:Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif;"</code> to tables displaying Unicode characters. We have had to develop [[:Template:IPA]] ([[Template talk:IPA |documentation]]) and [[:Template:Polytonic]] to display [[International Phonetic Alphabet |IPA]] and [[Polytonic Greek]] characters in MSIE. These are all hacks, aimed only at MSIE on Windows. On a stock Mac or Windows system the necessary fonts are present, and Safari and Firefox display all these characters. But MSIE displays little squares, unless web authors guess which fonts the system might have and specify them in each and every instance where these Unicode characters appear. ''&mdash;[[User:Mzajac |Michael]]&nbsp;[[User talk:Mzajac |Z.]]&nbsp;<small>2005-01-31&nbsp;07:22&nbsp;Z</small>''