Re: TECH: Unicode and Macs

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, James Worlton <jworlton@n...> wrote:
 > Steg Belsky wrote:
 >
 > > But anyway, anyone here with a recent-OS mac?  Do you get unicode
emails
 > > through the Conlang/culture lists properly?
 >
 > Yes. Netscape 7.x handles it fine, both for email and web pages (OS 9.2).

I'm using OS 10.2, and although I get most unicode
correctly, all non-standard Latin characters come in a
jumble of different fonts, font sizes, and spacing.
For example, lowercase edh comes out about half the
regular size, hovering above the baseline, and with
ample space on both sides.  It's dead ugly, and I have
no idea why it should be like that, seeing as my two
default fonts for Netscape 7 are Gentium and Lucida
Grande, which both have a huge stock of unicode
characters.



 > I remember hearing that
 > > there have been problems with some non-[Modern]English characters,
 > > especially thorn and edh, with Macs.  Are those still a problem?  Every
 > > so often people send random unicode characters through here, such as
 > > Chinese place-names, text in Russian, Hebrew or Arabic, or the
Devanagari
 > > |th| on Conlang from a few days ago.  Have you been able to read
them all
 > > properly?
 >
 >
 > Again, yes. Macs are definitely [becoming] competetive.

The Mac itself is competitive.  I can choose "U.S.
Extended" as my keyboard setting and the produce
characters like an ampersand with cedilla, macron and
dot-accent in TextEdit.  It seems to happen with both
Netscape and Internet Explorer though.  Could be some
bug in the interpretation of Unicode HTML.



-- Christian Thalmann