From: Addison Phillips [wM] (aphillips@webmethods.com)
Date: Tue Dec 02 2003 - 08:43:09 EST
Um...
This specialist list discusses Unicode, which, last I looked, had something
to do with encoding characters. Of course both fonts and Web pages use
Unicode, but that doesn't mean that this list specializes in either. There
are other specialist lists that discuss Web pages, fonts and other such
arcana.
Before asking questions, it is usually a good idea to see if you can find
the answer somewhere. It turns out that the W3C does, in fact, maintain FAQs
and HTML authoring guidelines for international users under the auspices of
the Internationalization Working Group's GEO Task Force, which you can find
here:
http://www.w3.org/International/geo
Alas, the sections and/or FAQs that would answer your specific question
haven't been written yet. Perhaps, when you learn the answer, you might help
contribute to the edification of others?
There are also lists that that specialize in answering questions about Web
technology. For example, www-international@w3.org.
Information on subscribing to that list is here:
http://www.w3.org/International/core
Finally, there was a discussion of this topic not that long ago on that
list. Here is the link to the first message in that thread in the list
archive:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2003JulSep/0004.html
Your question may not be answered to your satisfaction, since the answers to
this question, like those of most internationalization questions, seems to
start with the phrase "Well, it depends...", but it helps to look in the
right places :-).
Regards,
Addison
Addison P. Phillips
Director, Globalization Architecture
webMethods | Delivering Global Business Visibility
http://www.webMethods.com
Chair, W3C Internationalization (I18N) Working Group
Chair, W3C-I18N-WG, Web Services Task Force
http://www.w3.org/International
Internationalization is an architecture.
It is not a feature.
-----Original Message-----
From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
Behalf Of Arcane Jill
Sent: mardi 2 decembre 2003 08:12
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: RE: Fonts on Web Pages
Aaargh! No it doesn't!!!! PLEASE stop filling this thread with stuff which
does not address the original question. I am interested in WEB PAGES.
Nothing else. Not Acrobat Files. Not Word files. Nothing. JUST WEB PAGES. If
you can't do it on a bog standard HTML page, it's not answering the
question.
Frustrated with all these unrelated side-issues, I decided to try Google
instead. (Google often gives better answers about things than specialist
lists!). I found a really good demo of exactly what I was after at
"http://www.truedoc.com/webpages/intro/". Of course, I still don't know if
this is state-of-the-art, or whether something better has turned up since
then.
If anyone has any further information about how to embed fonts in HTML
files, please let me know.
Thanks
Jill
-----Original Message-----
From: Raymond Mercier [mailto:raymondM@compuserve.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:51 PM
To: Arcane Jill
Cc: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Fonts on Web Pages
Of course Adobe was designed to do just the problem you defined,
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