On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Doug Ewell wrote:
> Maggie Yeung wrote:
>
> > Can someone think of any other issues related to using Unicode font.
>
> I find it mildly annoying that Outlook Express picks a font on the
> basis of the encoding chosen for a given message. On this list and
> the IDN list, a message encoded as JIS or EUC-KR or BIG5 will likely be
> displayed in a different font from the one used to display Latin-1 or
> UTF-8 messages.
Did you mean that different fonts are used to render US-ASCII part
of messages depending on the encoding used in messages, ISO-2022-JP,
EUC-KR, Big5, ISO-8859-X, UTF-8?
> I'd prefer to see all plain-text messages in the same
> font, regardless of encoding or language.
In MS OE, you can achieve that by setting it to use
your prefered Unicode font (with as many glyphs as possible: e.g Arial
MS Unicode) for all languages of your concern in Option|Tools|Font.
The same is more or less the case in Mozilla/NS 6.
BTW, the language/encoding dependence of font/glyph selection is usually
regarded as a feature especially those who're sensitive to (minor or
not so minor) difference in glyph shapes of unified Han characters.
In case of UTF-8 encoded text/plain messages, it's impossible to
infer the language from MIME charset (unless not-yet-commonly-deployed
plane 14 lang. tag is used. The same is true of text/html if <lang> is
not used, but html has <lang>.). MS OE uses fonts for 'Unicode' (it's
not a language, but...) Mozilla used to do the same, but recent builds
search for glyphs in fonts for the present locale first and then look
for what's not found in it in other fonts. Sometimes, this leads to an
unpleasant result if glyphs taken from two or more fonts with drastically
different design principles/looks and feels (e.g. a serif-style font
for Korean and a sans-serif-style for Japanese) are mixed together.
Jungshik Shin
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