Re: Ping! Énglis´ Artspellin

On Mon, 15 May 2000 09:16:20 -0500, "Carlos Eugenio Thompson (EDC)"
<EDCCET@...> wrote:

>Well, I've tried to post this before but some how my postings are not
>reaching to Brown...
>
>I've webified my proposal of alternative English spelling at
>http://members.tripod.com/chlewey/inglis.html
>
>It uses Thryomanes font and looks okay while editing (even the HTML) on Word
>but doesn't appear quite okay with MSIE and special characters doesn't show
>in Netscape.  Anyhow, those who want to look at and comment, please do.
>
>-- Carlos Eugenio Thompson Pinzón
There's a minor bug in Netscape: it doesn't display Unicode characters
properly unless the character set is set to UTF-8.

If you edit the text file manually (with Notepad or WordPad), you'll see
the following text:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISOO-8859-1">

Change the "ISOO-8859-1" to "UTF-8" and it'll work fine under Netscape.

Internet Explorer, on the other hand, has a bug that isn't so easy to work
around. It substitutes a font that appears to be Lucida Sans Unicode for
the IPA characters, even if you've specified a different font. On systems
without Lucida Sans Unicode installed, the results look just plain awful.
The best fix for this bug is to download Netscape.

I created a special "Thryomanes IPA" font that gets around the bug by
encoding the IPA characters into the regular Windows character set range.
See the Tirelat page (http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/Tirelat.html) for an
example of its use. TIPA also includes some IPA characters that haven't yet
been added to the regular Thryomanes font. But Internet Explorer still has
problems with it. Hopefully this is only a temporary solution until the
popular browsers support Unicode properly.

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