Re: New Conlang: Terkunan

Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Jeffrey Jones writes:
>> ...
>> I downloaded and installed Thryomanes 1.1, but it doesn't help if the web page
>> selects a different font.
>
> Hmm.  It could be that your browser has an option like 'Always use my
> fonts'.  I use that too to view everything with DejaVu.
>
> It could also be that the browser is too old to display Unicode
> correctly.  In this case, it will not show you IPA no matter what font
> you install.
Internet Explorer will not show a character if the current font doesn’t
have one, even if the user has a font installed which does contain that
character. Presumably so it is bugwards compatible with old versions of
Windows that didn’t use Unicode.

IIRC Wikipedia gets around this by using a CSS class that specifies all
known fonts that contain IPA characters in a special comment that every
browser apart from IE recognises as a comment, but that IE doesn’t. Not
abusing CSS *too* much...

But the other suggestion is, of course, to try a different browser. I’d
suggest it, but if you’re stuck on Windows I think IE7 now has a better
interface than Firefox, and is apparently no less secure. (Tho, if it’s
so old a computer, you’re probably not using IE7 so you may well have a
lot of fun trying Firefox or Opera. Opera’s historically been easier on
a slower system than anything else, if it helps. I dunno whether that’s
still the case tho.)

--
Tristan

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