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FW: FW: SIL Ezra in HTML

From: "Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>
To: <delbourne AT home.com>
Cc: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: FW: FW: SIL Ezra in HTML
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 10:39:20 +0400

Dear Don,

I hope this reply will be helpful to you. It seems that Netscape thinks you
have CP1252 etc text, which doesn't match the font, so it uses the default
font - qute logical really. So maybe you need to specify the character set
and encoding of your text (as "symbol") in your HTML, to match the "symbol"
font. That may solve the problem with IE5.5 as well. I don't know enough
HTML to know how to do that. Can anyone enlighten us?

Peter Kirk

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Constable [mailto:peter_constable AT sil.org]
Sent: 04 December 2000 17:01
To: peter_kirk AT sil.org
Subject: Re: FW: SIL Ezra in HTML

My guess is this: Netscape 6 is interpreting character codes in
terms of some standard for character set and encoding. (The
HTML did not specify a character set/encoding, but that
information would have been inferred from somewhere.) In this
case, it was probably interpreting in terms of MS codepage 1252
or ISO 8859-1 (identical to cp1252 except from 0x80 - 0x9f).
I'm also guessing that Netscape 6 is examining fonts and
applying some heuristics to try to determine if the selected
font contains the characters needed to render the text. Since
SIL Ezra is symbol encoded, it wouldn't match the character set
Netscape is using, and so Netscape is picking a different font.

This is just a guess. I could be all wrong.

Peter

On 12/03/2000 10:00:30 AM Peter Kirk wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Don A. Elbourne Jr. [mailto:delbourne AT home.com]
>Sent: 02 December 2000 18:16
>To: Biblical Hebrew
>Subject: RE: SIL Ezra in HTML
>
>
>As Alice said, "Curiouser and curiouser!" I just installed
Netscape 6 this
>morning and the SIL Ezra font does not render at all. The
characters appear
>with the default Roman face. BWHebb renders fine. Here is my
entire HTML
>file:
>
>
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
><HTML>
><HEAD>
><TITLE>Hebrew Font Test</TITLE>
></HEAD>
><BODY>
>SIL Ezra:
>
>:ÝrA'Ah tE'Þw yamAKHah tE' yihÔl' 'árAÑb tyiH'ÆrÑb
>
><hr>
>BWHebb:
>
>`#r,a'h' taew> ~yIm;V'h; tae ~yhi+l{a/ ar'B' tyviareB.
>
>
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></BODY>
></HTML>
>
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>
>
>

Re: SIL Ezra in HTML, John Richards, 12/01/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: SIL Ezra in HTML, Don A. Elbourne Jr., 12/01/2000
- RE: SIL Ezra in HTML, Peter Kirk, 12/01/2000
 - Re: SIL Ezra in HTML, John Richards, 12/01/2000
 - Re: SIL Ezra in HTML, John Richards, 12/01/2000
- Re: SIL Ezra in HTML, Polycarp66, 12/01/2000
- RE: SIL Ezra in HTML, Peter Kirk, 12/02/2000
- RE: SIL Ezra in HTML, Don A. Elbourne Jr., 12/02/2000
- FW: FW: SIL Ezra in HTML, Peter Kirk, 12/05/2000
- Re: SIL Ezra in HTML, Jim Henderson, 12/05/2000