On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 04:34:14PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-02-12 11:56:56 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > > With the wonderful Han unification, a same unicode character has > > different representations in different fonts, because these character > > simply don't write the same way in chinese, in japanese or in korean. > > Such characters are sometimes so different that, for example, japanese > > people can't read the character if represented with a chinese font. > > If you base yourself on the characters that appear in the document, > > you can't say if it is chinese or japanese or even korean if it uses > > hanja. > > OK, I know understand. However, if only western characters really > appear in the document, it is possible to use a western font. > > > There are similar problems with several other scripts. There might even > > be the same problem with scripts that include latin characters and add > > specific character or special diactritics that are not present in most > > western fonts. If you decide that all ascii is to be written with > > a western font and such a script is actually being used, you're likely > > to display something ugly. > > But Firefox should detect that such special characters are used, > and select another font accordingly (depending on the user's > configuration). The language and/or the encoding should be used > only when there's some ambiguity.
So, your wish would be that if a page has only ascii, it is treated as ascii, even if the specified encoding or language (attribute lang) is something else ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
