Hi,
Writing a plugin would not be enough. There are quite a few issues
to deal with when rendering Indian text in a browser without
Unicode support (as you all know). I assume that you are looking for
a solution that works for more than just one browser on one platform!?
Some browser may neither support Unicode text encoding formats (e.g.
utf-8), nor rendering of 16-bit characters. Also they would probably
not be able to deal with the complex character shaping and positioning
and text direction issues found in Indian and other languages. Some
browsers do not support downloading (partial) fonts yet, so these
browsers may not be able to show the text even if they did support
Unicode. There are other issues as well....
It's not impossible to solve these problems though, but it is *very*
hard. We (at BorWare AB) are working on a product with which we intend
to support Unicode, CSS level 2 and font embedding on many platforms and
browsers. Specifically, it will support Indian Unicode fonts (OpenType
Layout) and non-Unicode Indian fonts (TT, T1, etc) in IE 4.x, IE 5.x,
Nav 4.x, Nav 6.x, Op4, WebTV on (non-Indian) Windows, Unix, Mac. It's
being beta tested right now and should be available sometime next year...
Regards,
- Michael
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sanatan mohanty [mailto:smohanty@iitk.ac.in]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 5:33 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Cc: Unicode List; cata@netscape.com; erik@netscape.com
> Subject: Re: Can anyone help me!!!
>
>
>
>
>
> hi,
>
> can't i use unicode to generate and show the fonts in any browser
> irrespective of their support to unicode!. like by writing plugin or
> something like this. and when a user with browser which
> doesn't support
> unicode like to access that webpage. he/she needs to install
> that plugin.
>
> will it be possible????
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Yung-Fong Tang wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Antoine Leca wrote:
> >
> > > sanatan mohanty wrote:
> > > >
> > > > i have a project to make a webpage, which will be
> unicode enable.
> > >
> > > Good.
> > >
> > > > i can show indian language fonts.
> > > > i can type those fonts on the webpage itself on text boxes!.
> > >
> > > Ah! How do you do that?
> > > Or do you mean "would/should" instead?
> > >
> > > > and it should be atleast work on netscape and windows
> > > > explorer!, and atleast LINUX and Windows OS supports it!.
> > >
> > > I am not aware that Netscape, even in version 6, is able to
> > > display Indian sentences encoded in Unicode (although it is
> > > able to display individual characters). The problem is in
> > > the rendering (displaying) of the conjuncts, and the reordering
> > > of the left-positionned matra's.
> >
> > Does Netscape6 on Win2K have this problem ? If so, can you
> put together
> > a test page for us? We know there are problem when we try
> to select the
> > conjuncts. However, since we use TextOutW, in theory the
> TextOutW should
> > handle conjuncts and handle the reording of the left-positionned
> > matra's.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > so, can u people give me some brief ideas abt keyboard mapping,
> > >
> > > Keyboard layout is unrelated to the problem.
> > > You can use whatever you want (or are comfortable with).
> > >
> > > However, you certainly need a Unicode-able editor. Very few of
> > > them are Indian-enabled (Microsoft are the best choice, but are
> > > not the cheaper, particularly since it pratically needs Win2000).
> > >
> > > > unicode font setting,
> > >
> > > There are very few Indian "Unicode" fonts for the moment.
> > > And even less work with X11/Linux.
> > >
> > > In fact, I am not aware of any such a font. Which is the main
> > > reason why I ask the questions above.
> > >
> > > > dispay setting....
> > >
> > > What do you mean with display setting?
> > > The display setting is on the the client side. You are not going
> > > to have any form of control on this setting... (and no, I do not
> > > like browsing a web site and encountering a page that says
> > > "please, change over all your settings in order to browse my
> > > site"; actually, I often switch away).
> > >
> > > Antoine
> >
>
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