Re: html and special characters

!hola!

> > please note that the used font is "Lucida Sans Unicode" which
> > should be available to most platforms (IIRC, it is shipped with
> > the JavaRuntime additionally);
> I have installed several Unicode-fonts, but I still get square boxes where
I
> should get IPA extension characters. I do not have Lucida Sans Unicode,
but
> I do have other unicode fonts.And that's exactly the problem with normal
> HTML -> the page layout depends on the font, which depends on whatever is
> installed on your viewer's computer.
normally, the browser automatically tries to get the specified font and if
it cannot find it, it selects a font that is either the default font or any
font related to the one specified;
but by using mostly standard fonts like Arial, Courier or Times the HTML
creator can almost nullify font-related problems; and I personally consider
Lucida Sans Unicode to be a sort of standard font when dealing with Unicode
encoding; of course, on newer computers even those standard fonts have
built-in Unicode glyphs;
so if you were really nice you could specify a font hierarchy from which the
browser would then choose the available font to draw the characters with;

on a sidenote: I have noticed that NS (net*ape) tends to draw those infamous
rectangular boxes when you first open a Unicode-enlightened document (before
required libraries are loaded);


> Maybe Dynamic fonts could solve this problem. I have seen very nice
> examples, butI have not yet had time to figure out how to compose these.
> Personally, I still go for PDF.
IIRC I only encountered those once, and even then they required some ominous
plugin to install on the system;


talking about learning html, here's a quite good guide (in German though)
that teaches the basics of HTMLling, called "SelfHTML" by S.Muenz
and then there is that simple, fast, easy to use freeware editor for w32
systems called "phase5"

mfgdam

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