Re: TECH: Testing again

Muke Tever sikyal:

> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:58:09 -0800, JS Bangs <jaspax@...>
> wrote:
> > Figured I'd hijack this thread for some free tech help...
> >
> > I can read all this business just fine via web mail, but I have problems
> > with Greek in Mozilla 1.5 on Linux. When I go to Perseus or other sites
> > offering polytonic Greek, I see all accented characters just fine, but
> > unaccented characters insist on coming out in all-caps. I can see that
> > the Unicode font I'm using (ClearlyU) contains the lower-case letters,
> > but I
> > can't get Mozilla to display them. Help?
>
> Silly question, but have you checked whether the same font is used for
> Greek (unaccented chars & monotonic accents) and Greek Extended (polytonic
> accents)?  At least in Opera you have an option to set both; I dont know
> about Mozilla.
Mozilla doesn't use separate fonts for monotonic and polytonic Greek. It
actually doesn't allow you to set more than one font for separate unicode
ranges at all--there's only one Unicode font, which had better contain
characters for whatever ranges you want. This is clearly sub-optimal.

Actually, looking at http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/greek.html, I see
the following:
 * All of the characters marked with a tonos and miscellania appear
correctly
 * All of the lowercase plain characters appear as uppercase characters
 * All of the uppercase characters appear as random mathematical symbols
This is true in both of the browsers I have installed (Mozilla and
Konqueror). This suggests some kind of system-wide fontmap problem, which
I might have to look elsewhere to fix.


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Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
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