From: Jukka K. Korpela (jkorpela@cs.tut.fi)
Date: Fri Apr 06 2007 - 11:41:25 CST
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> I just tested your site on an old Windows 98 system, using IE 6, and I don't
> see any character-related problems there.
Analyzing the page a bit more, I realized that it does not contain the
Telugu characters I see on screen. Instead, it contains strings of ASCII
characters that are passed to a JavaScript function "translate" that
converts them into strings of Telugu characters.
That's not a robust approach. It fails when JavaScript is disabled in the
user's system, or filtered out by a company firewall, or executed by a
JavaScript implementation that does not meet the author's expectations.
But as I wrote, it works on fairly old systems, too - when JavaScript
execution is enabled.
I'm sure there are editors that would let you type Telugu characters
directly into HTML documents. If you need to work with a setting that uses
ASCII input, using some special code for presenting Telugu characters as
strings of ASCII characters, it would be safer to perform the conversion
server-side.
-- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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