OT: :lang pseudo-class support (was glyph selection....)

2002-09-29 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Andrew Cunningham wrote: > Jungshik Shin wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>On 09/26/2002 10:46:42 PM Andrew Cunningham wrote: > >>>For me, this is the crux: that browsers have not implimented the css > >>>:lang selector. > > As I wrote in my respo

RE: script or block detection needed for Unicode fonts

2002-09-29 Thread Murray Sargent
Title: Re: script or block detection needed for Unicode fonts John Jenkins wrote: "This just seems wildly inefficient to me, but then I'm coming from anOS where this isn't done.  The app doesn't keep track of whether or nota particular font can draw a particular character; that's h

Re: script or block detection needed for Unicode fonts

2002-09-29 Thread John Cowan
John H. Jenkins scripsit: > This just seems wildly inefficient to me, but then I'm coming from an > OS where this isn't done. As a cross-platform app, Mozilla can't count on very much from the platform. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.reutershealth.com "Mr. Lane, if you e

Re: glyph selection for Unicode in browsers

2002-09-29 Thread tiro
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > But should there not be some (possibly user-overridable) relationship > between an NLS or similar tag (e.g. "lang" in HTML or xml:lang) and one of > these so that a browser or word-processing app that knows what "language" > (e.g. what RFC 3066 tag) is applied to the

Re: glyph selection for Unicode in browsers

2002-09-29 Thread jameskass
Peter Constable wrote, > >Once the font specs for all this are set and fonts are released with > >the necessary coverage and the shaping engines can access all of this, > >the browsers are sure to quickly add support, too. > > I'm not quite as optimistic in terms of how close we are to having a

Re: script or block detection needed for Unicode fonts

2002-09-29 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 03:19 PM, David Starner wrote: > On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 01:19:58PM -0700, Murray Sargent wrote: >> Michael Everson said: >>> I don't understand why a particular bit has to be set in >>> some table. Why can't the OS just accept what's in the font? >> >> The ma