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From: Raghvendra Sharma
Sent: Mon 6/4/2001 4:51 AM
To: 'info@unicode.org '
Cc: 'suhaskb@niit.com, '; >
Subject: Query, please help
Hi there
I am a software developer, currently trying to develop a
javascript based equation editor (an interface to create equations).
For that i needed certain greek symbols, which i happily derived from
the unicode character set. It worked on my machine on IE5.5 and
Netscape 6 both.
But while testing more exhaustively, i got to know that the
interoperability between machines or browsers has to be accomplished,
i.e. it is not something that can be assumed to be present on the client
machine.
Let nme describe the exact nature of problem,
1. The client requirement is that the symbols should be
available to the user as such on the button labels and not the names.
e.g. if a button is supposed to insert (theeta) in the equation, the
button for that purpose should itself bear the symbol (theeta) and not
the name "Theeta".
2. While trying to accomplish that, certain unicode characters
(θ for theta ) etc, were found to be shown on the web page ( my
preview pane, precisely a DIV which is refreshed on every button click
), but not on the buttons ( as their labels ).
3. On certain machines, the characters were not at all visible,
i mean none of the positions, neither on the buttons as label, nor on
the preview pane properly.
About machines- The machines referred above are all p-III 256 MB
ram systems running Win NT 4.0. this behaviour is similar on both ie and
netscape.
When i started hunting for the problem, i got most of the
information on languages and not on the symbols (which themselves are
from Greek Language). I couldn't find any links that mention unicode on
buttons as labels.
What i want to know from your techinal expertise is the root
cause of the problem. Is this a font installation problem, is this a
misconfigured browser or something else.
any type of help would be appreciated. Links would also do.
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Raghvendra Sharma
Software Developer
Software Solutions Business
NIIT Ltd.
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NIIT Ltd.
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