From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Sat Apr 12 2008 - 07:04:21 CDT
Quoting Andreas Prilop <prilop2008@trashmail.net>:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Otto Stolz wrote:
>
>>>>> http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/combining-marks.html
>>
>> - fixed-pitch: Lucida Console 1.60
>> With this setup, I can spot no difference between the
>> three browsers´ rendering of your examples.
>
> Everyone but you can see:
No not that simple, I am using Firefox on Dubuntu Linux
> Internet Explorer À = À à = à
These look the same
> Firefox A` = À a` = à
>
These look different
(my email client no support these)
John Knightley
>> - IE has script-specific font settings; to be sure that
>> you use the same font, everywhere, you have to assign
>> it specifically for all scripts contained in your example
>> text.
>
> No, these settings apply only the encoding (charset) of the
> page. IE uses the Latin font for UTF-8. Define Times New Roman
> as Latin typeface - and Arial Black as Greek and Cyrillic
> typeface. Then Greek and Cyrillic letters will be displayed
> in Times New Roman for charset=utf-8 and in Arial Black
> for charset=ISO-8859-5 or -7.
>
>> - If a particular character is missing in the font you have
>> specified, Firefox will get it from another font, which
>> IE doesn´t.
>
> IE 7 does this; IE 6 did not - another difference between
> IE 7 and IE 6.
>
>
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