Re: creating a test font w/ CJKV Extension B characters.

From: Frank Yung-Fong Tang (ytang0648@aol.com)
Date: Wed Nov 19 2003 - 21:07:48 EST

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    are you using Netscape7 / Mozilla or IE?
    If you use IE, then IE may have a bug about that.
    I think Mozilla should not have the problem since I develope and test it
    by myself.

    jameskass@att.net wrote:

    > .
    > Frank Yung-Fong Tang wrote,
    >
    > > If you visit
    > >
    > http://people.netscape.com/ftang/testscript/gb18030/gb18030.cgi?page=596
    > > and your machine have surrogate support install correctly and surrogate
    > > font install correctly then you should see surrogate characters show up
    > > match the gif.
    >
    > It isn't working, but I have surrogate support and a font correctly
    > installed.

    Are you running on XP or 2K? od you install all the necessary surrogate
    support? Do you teak your font pref to use the surrogate font for
    Chinese pages?

    >
    > The page looks like it is calling for Unicode characters to display,
    > example 𠀀, but the HTML header says "GB-18030" for the characters
    > set. Could this be the problem, or are Unicode and GB18030 matched
    > for plane two and for HTML numeric characters references?
    It should not matter . But again, it could be a bug in the IE.

    >
    > Each single Plane Two character is displaying as two missing glyphs,
    > if that is an extra clue.
    >
    > Best regards,
    >
    > James Kass
    > .

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