Re: TECH: fonts (Re: Deseret alphabet)

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:13:41 -0400, Christopher Wright <faceloran@...>
wrote:

>Jeff Jones palsalge
>>I took a quick look at the page. This brings up a technical question. I
>>have Thryomanes installed. How do I get MSIE (6.0 W98SE) to actually _use_
>>it for Unicode pages?
>
>(I take it that you already have pages encoded in Unicode that display
>fine.)
No -- sorry I wasn't clear. I'm trying to view someone else's page, not
create my own.

>Easiest way to do so is through stylesheets. Just insert this text in the
>header:
>
><STYLE TYPE="text/css">
><!--
>BODY { font-family: thryomanes,arial }
>-->
></STYLE>
>
>I checked it out, and it works.
>
>There's a lot you can do with stylesheets. Check out www.webmonkey.com for
>a full description of the possibilities.
>
>Or if you meant you wanted to get IE to use a particular font for Unicode
>characters when you're viewing them, you go to Tools -> Internet options -
>> General tab -> Fonts. Then you have to change each item on the list to
>show in that font.
This is the problem. MSIE lists languages here, not encodings. How do I
match the font with the encoding? Unicode isn't a language! Thanks for the
response anyway.

Jeff

>
>~wright