OK, I sent an email to the web site contact address. Who knows if that will help? Maybe if a *lot* of people bombard them with emails, they will get the message ... :
>> from Ed <ed.tra...@gmail.com> >> to diction...@burmese-dictionary.org >> date Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:07 PM >> subject Please Convert Your Website to Unicode! >> mailed-by gmail.com >> >> >> Hi! >> >> Your website is not encoded using Unicode. >> >> This causes great confusion for your users. For example, they cannot >> "copy and paste" Burmese text because the text is really just ASCII >> Latin letters with a "hacked" Burmese font. >> >> It would be much better if you would convert your web site to use Unicode. >> >> Thank you! >> >> Sincerely -- Ed Trager >> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Rick McGowan <r...@unicode.org> wrote: > Hello Philippe Blankert - > > Thanks for your interest in Unicode... > >> >> http://www.burmese-dictionary.org/tastatur.php?terme=hotel&termb=%5Bkdw%2Cf&id=2970 > > That page isn't in Unicode at all, it's an 8859-1 encoded page. That's part > of the problem. > > Then, the Burmese characters on the page are all *images*, and when you > click the buttons to type into the field, it seems to send ASCII text to the > input field. > > And the WWin_Burmese1 font, which I just downloaded to check, is an > "ASCII-hack" font that is not encoded in Unicode. > > Hope that helps. > > Rick > > >
