Re: Font embedding

Boudewijn Rempt eskri:rema: --

> I've succeeded in getting Netscape to display Unicode using the Cyberbi=
t
> font, though - I think that that would be a better route. Free unicode
fonts
> are starting to become available, too, and if I've read the readme's wi=
th
> the source of Pine correctly, from next year on all mail readers have t=
o
> be unicode compliant or they should be considered broken. There's light
> at the horizon!
This would work, so long as you only need to use characters that are alre=
ady
in the Unicode font (and if you can assume that your readers have a suita=
ble
font installed [Herman, I've just had a look at your Kirezagi page, both =
in
Netscape 4.5 and ie5, and all I get is empty boxes where the kana{?} shou=
ld
be]). Conscripts such as the Klingon one (name escapes me)
and my own ri-tjal script for Rahha, which at present require gifs (or th=
at
the reader download and install a supplied font), would be much easier to
handle with font embedding, don't you think?

On the subject of mail clients, does this mean that from next year all ou=
r
problems with accented characters getting mangled in the mail will be ove=
r?
In the past when I was on Conlang, I couldn't write Jameld words like
"eskr=EFrem=E4" properly, but had to use colons and other mank (as above)=
,
because most listmembers would receive something like "eskr$rem{".

James

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