Re: TECH: Unicode, HTML and Edh

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 07:28:41PM -0500, David Peterson wrote:

>    If you go to http://dedalvs.free.fr/zhyler/main.html, the main
>    links [e.g., Phonology, Noun Classes, etc.] will have special
>    messages that appear when you mouseover them, but these messages
>    only appear in Internet Explorer.  If you do this on Safari, for
>    example, all you see is the link.)
The messages show up fine for me in Mozilla Firefox on Windows XP,
assuming the status bar is where you meant for them to appear.  The IPA
stuff looks fine in Firefox on XP, too.  But from your mention of
Safari, I assume you're using a Mac?  I won't be of any help with IE on
a Mac.


>    -All IPA characters *not* found in a normal font (e.g., Times New Roman,
>    Palatino...), save one (angma) come out as question marks [and angma comes
>    out in a different font].  This happened in Safari for me *until* I
>    installed the appropriate font.
Not here.  With IE 6 on XP, the stuff in the table looks fine; however,
the ʃ and ʒ characters which show up fine in the table are replaced by
boxes in the footnotes.  (Incidentally, I feel that ^ is a bad footnote
marker; I had no idea that's what it was.  As long as you're embracing
Unicode, why not use something like U+2020 DAGGER †?

Anyway, my advice is to get rid of all the <font> tags, or at the very
least the face= specifications.  You can have no hope of your pages
looking right on random people's browsers if you're trying to dictate
font faces at them.  Use CSS to indicate when you want serifs and when
you want sans-serif, and leave the rest up to the browser.  I suspect
that if you do that you'll have better luck with the Unicode.

-Mark

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