Re: xkcd: LTR

Looks OK here, but that is probably FreeType doing its magic as usual.

Regards,
 Khaled

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 02:29:45AM +0100, Philippe Verdy wrote:
> Also I really don't like the Deseret font:
> {font-family: CMU; src: url(CMUSerif-Roman.ttf) format("truetype");}
> that you have inserted in your stylesheet (da.css) which is used to display
> the whole text content of the page, including the English Latin text at the
> bottom part. This downloaded font is difficult to read as it is not hinted
> at all (so its rendering on screen is extremely poor, we probably don't
> want to print each page of this XKCD series, when the main interest is the
> image which is perfectly readable).
> Could you ask to someone in this list to help you hinting this font a
> minimum (even basic autohinting would be much better).
>
>
> 2012/11/27 Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr>
>
> > Did you try add the xml:lang="en-Dsrt" pseudo-attribute to the html
> > element, as suggested by the W3C Unicorn validator ?
> >
> >
> > http://validator.w3.org/unicorn/check?ucn_uri=www.xn--elqus623b.net%2FXKCD%2F1138.html&ucn_lang=fr&ucn_task=conformance#
> >
> > May be this could help IE and Firefox that can't figure out the language
> > used to properly detect the encoding if they still don't trust the XML
> > declaration in this case, to avoid them to use an encoding "guesser". It is
> > anyay curious because this site is valid as XHTML 1.1 (not as HTML5 which
> > uses a very different and simplified prolog, which is not matched here, so
> > the "legacy" rules should apply to detect XHTML here, then legacy HTML4 if
> > XHTML is no longer recognized by IE and Firefox). Because XHTML is properly
> > tagged, the XML requirements should apply and the XML declaration in the
> > prolog should be used without needing to guess the encoding from the rest
> > of the content (starting by a meta element in the HTML head element).
> >
> >
> > 2012/11/27 John H. Jenkins <jenkins_at_apple.com>
> >
> > That's because the domain does, in fact, use sinograms and not Deseret.
> >> (It's my Chinese name.)
> >>
> >> On 2012年11月26日, at 下午1:54, Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >>
> >> I wonder why this IDN link appears to me using sinograms in its domain
> >> name, instead of Deseret letters. The link works, but my browser cannot
> >> display it and its displays the Punycoded name instead without decoding it.
> >>
> >> This is strange because I do have Deseret fonts installed and I can
> >> view "Unicoded" HTML pages containing Deseret letters.
> >>
> >>
> >> 2012/11/26 John H. Jenkins <jenkins_at_apple.com>
> >>
> >>> Or, if one prefers:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.%e4%ba%95%e4%bd%9c%e6%81%86.net/XKCD/1137.html<http://www.xn--elqus623b.net/XKCD/1137.html>
> >>>
> >>> On 2012年11月21日, at 上午10:22, Deborah Goldsmith <goldsmit_at_apple.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://xkcd.com/1137/
> >>>
> >>> Finally, an xkcd for Unicoders. :-)
> >>>
> >>> Debbie
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
Received on Tue Nov 27 2012 - 12:30:26 CST