Re: Fonts

On Apr 5, 7:19 pm, "William L. Hartzell" <wlhartz...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sir:

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

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

But Bill, I certainly don't have any Cyrillic or
Thai fonts installed on my OS, either MPC (4.52) or 3.0
Connect, both with codepage 850. And changing
displayed fonts in "Properties" makes no difference. I
assume the fonts I am seeing are downloaded.
I also have not made any international font changes
from the SeaMonkey default.

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

But, my OS/2 3.0 renders the came Cyrillic and Thai
pages that 4.52 does. They both won't show all,
though.

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

The fonts that I am concerned with that don't
display on 3.0, but do on 4.52, are the math character
(minus) and Greek symbols. AFAIK, some are in the
native ASCII 255 character set, but the Greek is
predominantly from somewhere else.

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.

I have not installed anything special on 4.52. What
is mostly confusing to me are:

A) I can see on perfect Cyrillic (but not all pages) on
both 3.0 and 4.52

B) I cannot view most HTML math symbols on 3.0, but I
can on 4.52 using the exact same SeaMonkey

have fun!
lin Baden


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Bill
Thanks a Million!

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