Re: Fonts

Sir:

baden.kudrenecky@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 25, 6:09 am, "William L. Hartzell" <wlhartz...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

variance with my experience. He said that Firefox uses the Gecko layout
engine and because it does, cannot display downloaded glyphs. I said
that I have not had the pleasure of being unable to read Russian web
sites because my browser was unable to find the right glyphs, having
told him that I was using SeaMonkey and upon his statement not being
[...]
able to read Russian text in his Firefox running on Solaris. So is his
experience the result of his native platform, or some general problem
with the font engine in Mozilla code?

I am completely confused on how WWW browsers render
fonts. The other day, I found that my SeaMonkey 1.1.8
on OS/2 3.0 did not render the "minus" symbol, nor
after investigating, many other symbols:

http://www.math.uh.edu/~hjm/HTML%20Tag%20List.htm

After booting into OS/2 4.5, the same browser
perfectly rendered almost all the fonts from the above
page. This had seemingly nothing to do with the
default font I selected. My codepage is 850, and the
browser is set to "Unicode UTF-8"

I then checked out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperText_Markup_Language
in 4.5, and most the character sets in the left margin
were rendered. The following pages were even perfectly
rendered:

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
http://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
http://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML
http://www.101.ru/

Many other foreign character sets were not rendered.

When I booted back into 3.0, the above Cyrillic
pages were still faultlessly rendered, and also the
Thai characters. Many other Cyrillic pages are not
rendered correctly, though.

I cannot discern any relationship between what is
rendered, and all I can see is that 4.5 renders better
and Russian seems to rule.


You tell Mozilla what fonts to use. Assuming that you've install the
required fonts in the operating system, then that font is rendered. IF
that font has all the glyphs that are needed for the pages that you
visit, then you will see the pages rendered correctly. That is why I
balked at the original subject's statement that Mozilla fails to
rendered Russian sites well, knowing fully that he was only telling me
that he has crappy fonts or a broken render, and not what he was
claiming that this is Mozilla's fault. He waved the BS that Mozilla
won't download fonts as needed to fix his problem. In your case where
there is a difference between version 3 and later versions, you must
remember that version 3 of OS/2 was not Unicode compatible and the
default fonts that came with it were lacking in many glyphs, normally
only having those glyphs that were used for the default language of the
version sold. Even when version 4 came out with Unicode support, the
default fonts were limited in the glyphs they contained. That is why it
is important to install the fonts that came with the Java package. But
even with the Java font packages, there are character code points that
have no glyphs. There was another thread back several years that
recommended purchase of code2000 font package, because of the
completeness of the glyphs set.
--
Bill
Thanks a Million!
.

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