On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 07:38:42PM -0500, Jungshik Shin wrote: > It's not only excessive but also does not work at all for text-mode > browsers (including browsers with speech synthesizer for the blind) > that have no need for / interest in the internal structure of a font. > Your scheme is going against the stream of separating the content from > the presentation.
His scheme is a solution for a problem that is very hard to solve for text-mode browsers. If you need to use a character not encoded in Unicode, there are no solutions that will let a text-mode browser work well. The normal solution of just specifing font face is hopeless. If you use pictures, then the text-browser can read the names, but the graphical browser can't resize the glyphs. If you use Pim's system, then the program could read the names of the glyphs - not great, but arguably the best of any solution given. I think the sad reality is, no matter how you cut it, text-mode browsers are going to be locked out of anything but a few scripts - xterm can only handle stuff that fits in its fixed width range, and I'd suspect a speech synthesizer would handle a couple languages at most; whether or not the Tengwar is properly encoded in Unicode will be irrelevant. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Einstein once said that it would be hard to teach in a co-ed college since guys were only looking on girls and not listening to the teacher. He was objected that they would be listening to _him_ very attentively, forgetting about any girls. But such guys won't be worth teaching, replied the great man.
