On Saturday 2003.12.20 15:06:11 +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Jungshik Shin wrote: > > >> but this is the rule in principle. One default seems to be > >> 'the language group is Western'. > > > Actually, no. I think I already explained this. > > Yes, you did (on 15 December). Sorry. I stand corrected. So: the > default language group is determined by the UTF locale (which > incidentally also determines MozillaÂs GUI font). On Linux, the > default language group determines the fonts which Mozilla tries to > use (by preference) for displaying all Unicode characters. On > Windows, the preferred font is determined by the code range, which > seems more sensible, and in your bug report you propose to have > the same mechanism on Linux also.
I second that: Regardless of what mechanisms are used, it would be very nice if Mozilla worked identically on Linux and on Windows. That makes it much easier for developers who have to test whether web pages look the same on different platforms. Also, I assume that it would lead to some slight simplification of the Mozilla code base, which is usually a good thing as it is always easier to maintain just one thing instead of two. > > So on Windows, there should be no difference in display between > html fragments marked with or without '<span lang=ru> .... > </span>' provided they are in the Cyrillic utf-8 range. Correct? > > Probably not :-( , because when I try it on Win98 with Mozilla > 1.5, accessing a page with <span lang=ru>ÐÑÑÐÐ </span> ÐÐÑÑÐÐ, > Putin is in the Cyrillic preferred font, while Yeltsin is in the > Western font. Exactly the same as in Linux. > > So I _still_ donÂt understand it (including your bug report). > Apologies in advance if I have overlooked something obvious.. > > Regards, Jan > > > > -- > Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/ > -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
