Barry Schwartz <[email protected]> writes: > Latin-1 won't get you very far outside of Western Europe.
Western Europe, most of sub-Saharan Africa (virtually all of non-Arabic-speaking Africa; languages covered include French, English, Afrikaans, Sango, Dutch, and almost all local languages and dialects that are still active), most of Oceania (English, Tok Pisin, Indonesian, Tagalog, French, Portuguese, Dutch, and most Austronesian languages), and virtually the entire Western hemisphere. In other words, most of the non-CJK world. Again, I'm not arguing that people don't or shouldn't make websites that use other writing systems. They do, and that's great. I'm only saying that *lots* of people make websites that will only ever use Latin characters, and *those* websites can benefit greatly from fonts with the other writing systems stripped out. > I myself can't get by with it, because I need ĉ ĝ ĥ ĵ ŝ and ŭ for > Esperanto. I'm not a vast majority of anything, however. :) I'm not saying you shouldn't make websites in Esperanto. If you need non-Latin-1 characters for your Esperanto website, you could either embed a font that has those characters (surely someone in the Esperanto community would be willing to host some), or just let the user's browser select one of the full-unicode fonts installed on the user's computer. But I am not convinced that *every* embeddable font needs to support Esperanto, or more generally that every embeddable font should support every writing system. Most websites only need a limited subset. In fact, I would venture to say that most Esperanto sites don't need Chinese ideographs and will perform significantly better if their embedded fonts don't have all those thousands of extra characters. -- v4sw5Phw5ln5pr5FPO/ck2ma9u7FLw2/5l6/7i6e6t2b7/en4a3Xr5g5T http://hackerkey.com/decrypt.php?hackerkey=v4sw5PprFPOck2ma9uFw2l6i6e6t2b7en4g5T
