Re: Symbols in HTML, was: Boreanesian in the Web

Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> writes:

> On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:50:13 +0200, Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
> wrote:
>
> >Changing the romanization scheme so that it does not use special
> >consonants
> >is no problem. Vowels is a problem though. I need the ogonek (nasal
> >hook)
> >on accented and unaccented <i> <e> <a> <u>. AFAIK, HTML cannot render
> >these
> >at all.
>
> Without accents, they're available in the Baltic encodings (so you just
> need to insert e. g. "charset = WINDOWS-1257" in the header).
This only works under MicroSSoft Windoze (and not even there for
certain),
those who use a Mac or an operating system (i.e. Linux) will only see
garbled characters.  Everybody who creates web pages that only work
under Windoze helps making MicroSSoft more powerful and the world a
place less free and less civilized.

> Has anybody experimented with graphic images for letters used inside the
> usual text?
It works, though it doesn't look good because you can't predict the
fonts people use in their browsers.  In most cases, the special letters
come out in the wrong font and wrong size (sometimes even the wrong
colour).
But it is the only way to display non-standard special characters that
works with just about any browser.

The best way to present a conlang on the Web still is a transcription
scheme that confines itself to the ISO Latin-1 characters.  If
everything else fails, use a convention to prefix or suffix diacritics
HTML cannot handle (e.g. ,s for s-cedille or ^g for
g-accent-circonflexe).  Doesn't look very good, but works.

Jörg.

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