Re: CXS page (fy: (Mis)Naming a Language)

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:10:55 +0200, taliesin the storyteller
<taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
> * Jan van Steenbergen said on 2004-10-30 15:06:34 +0200
> >  --- Henrik Theiling skrzypszy:
> >
> > > If you like, take a look at my web-page with a comparison of IPA,
> > > X-Sampa and CXS:
> > >
> > >    http://www.theiling.de/ipa/
> >
> > And excellent page! However, if I may make one small suggestion: add
> > a font tag with a few Unicode fonts. Like: <FONT FACE="Code2000,
> > Thryomanes, Gentium, Lucida Sans Unicode, Arial Unicode, etc.">
>
> Always incorrect these days :) correct, oh, some seven years ago.
>
> > Because frankly, I only got it working after copying the source and
> > adding such a tag myself.
>
> The correct way is to tell what encoding it is, is to put it in the
> header/preamble.
I presume you meant to say "The correct way to tell what encoding it
is, is to put it in the header" (i.e. without the first "is").

But Jan is not talking about encoding: I believe he meant that his
browser correctly picked up the encoding, but was not smart enough to
choose a font that included all the characters used on that page, and
requested help.

A fair number of browsers, if told to use font X, will display "funny
characters" (e.g. IPA) if those characters are in that font but only
squares or question marks (or similar) if the characters are not in
that font, while other browsers are smart enough to look in other
available fonts for such characters -- but then you get the effect
that the page uses a mixture of fonts, and it might be preferable to
display the entire page in a font with a wide character repertoire.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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