Re: Japanese voicing, and learning Mandarin and Portuguese (was Re: Keyboards)

Paul Bennett wrote at 2006-01-11 11:47:10 (-0500)
 > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:31:31 -0500, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
 > wrote:
 >
 > > Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> writes:
 > >> ...
 > >> I have access to Pimsleurs for both languages, and to Henrik's
 > >> excellent flashcard site (which gets better each time I check it),
 > >> ...
 > >
 > > Thanks! :-)
 >
 > Well, it *is* a damn fine piece of work.
 >
 > > I urgently want to get the Hanzi teacher running, but I'll probably
 > > have to wait until I get a new web account -- the current one has
 > > quota problems and adding Chinese script with a lot of tiny little
 > > .gif files will not improve the situation.
 >
 > Is it plausible to make either the system (or specific teachers) require
 > Unicode fonts, and use just characters instead of .gifs? It'd give end
 > users more control over the character forms they see, for instance.
 >

Henrik's site already allows you to use Unicode, and even to specify
what font you want.  But it also uses gifs for users without the
necessary font support.