Re: Unicode in "plain text"

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:18:12PM -0500, Mike Ellis wrote:
> I went and did that, as well as installing the other monospace unicode
> fonts Lucida Sans Unicode and one just called "monospace". Didn't do me
> much good though: I can get them in "web page font" but they still won't
> show up in "plain text font".
Odd.  (Lucida Sans Unicode isn't monospace, btw; Lucida Console is the
monospace one).

> >What version of Windows are you running?
> 98se.
That could be part of the problem.  Unicode support in Windows 9x is
not well integrated into the OS; it's something of an afterthought
add-on, whereas In Windows NT, 2000, and XP, all text processing
is done in Unicode internally.  So I'd expect some quirks in 98.
Unfortunately all the Windows systems I use are 2000 or XP, so I
won't be much help tracking this one down.  For what it's worth,
though, here's my experience:

On my XP box, immediately after installing Everson Mono Terminal, it
showed up as a "plain text" font choice inside IE 6, with no further
action taken on my part.  The actual font installation was
done by Kermit-95's installer wizard, and I can't be sure it didn't
do something special to register the font as plaintext with IE,
but I don't see anything in the Registry which obviously constitutes
such.

-Mark