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Re: Unicode fonts on Debian


If you see "<html lang=ja>" then the page should use the font specified by the Japanese setting by default. [..] "Encoding" is fairly irrelevent to this, afaik <http://ken2403king.kir.jp/form.htm>



That´s a funny one, indeed. When I opened it in Mozilla it was
displayed as 偍栤偄崌傢偣丒偍怽偟崬傒.For a moment I thought it
was Chinese (which I do not know) but it is gibberish. Mozilla
thought it was Chinese Simplified GB 18030. The source says <html
LANG="ja">. It is Japanese with shift-jis encoding, in reality it
says お問い合わせ・お申し込み. (Isn´t Unicode fun, allowing to put
both variants in a mail message, just by copying from the Mozilla
screen like this..)

So, isn´t the LANG attribute *more* irrelevant, because it did not
help Mozilla (1.5a) to display the text correctly? A META tag
attribute "charset=shift-jis" added to (a copy of) the page did.
Doesn´t that mean that "encoding" is more relevant than "language"?

Regards, Jan


Interesting, I dont know how that link got in my mail, perhaps an accidental paste.
Looking closer it seems to be a very bad example of html, and its not even in unicode.
(the title tag is unclosed, it seems to be some kind of generated output)

Anyway, the page did load fine for me in mozilla, I dont know why it didnt work for you.
The lang attribute, when used judiciously does work.

a better example:
http://home.earthlink.net/~srintuar26/data/lang-tags.html

This page is in both Japanese and Chinese, and no single font (that i have) should be able to render
it correctly, so its an example of when to use language tags, and that they have naught to do
with encoding. (an opentype font might be able to) I'm sure somewhere there is a better/
more thorough example page of this nature...






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