Looks OK here, but that is probably FreeType doing its magic as usual. Regards, Khaled
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 02:29:45AM +0100, Philippe Verdy wrote: > Also I really don't like the Deseret font: > {font-family: CMU; src: url(CMUSerif-Roman.ttf) format("truetype");} > that you have inserted in your stylesheet (da.css) which is used to display > the whole text content of the page, including the English Latin text at the > bottom part. This downloaded font is difficult to read as it is not hinted > at all (so its rendering on screen is extremely poor, we probably don't > want to print each page of this XKCD series, when the main interest is the > image which is perfectly readable). > Could you ask to someone in this list to help you hinting this font a > minimum (even basic autohinting would be much better). > > > 2012/11/27 Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> > > > Did you try add the xml:lang="en-Dsrt" pseudo-attribute to the html > > element, as suggested by the W3C Unicorn validator ? > > > > > > http://validator.w3.org/unicorn/check?ucn_uri=www.xn--elqus623b.net%2FXKCD%2F1138.html&ucn_lang=fr&ucn_task=conformance# > > > > May be this could help IE and Firefox that can't figure out the language > > used to properly detect the encoding if they still don't trust the XML > > declaration in this case, to avoid them to use an encoding "guesser". It is > > anyay curious because this site is valid as XHTML 1.1 (not as HTML5 which > > uses a very different and simplified prolog, which is not matched here, so > > the "legacy" rules should apply to detect XHTML here, then legacy HTML4 if > > XHTML is no longer recognized by IE and Firefox). Because XHTML is properly > > tagged, the XML requirements should apply and the XML declaration in the > > prolog should be used without needing to guess the encoding from the rest > > of the content (starting by a meta element in the HTML head element). > > > > > > 2012/11/27 John H. Jenkins <jenk...@apple.com> > > > > That's because the domain does, in fact, use sinograms and not Deseret. > >> (It's my Chinese name.) > >> > >> On 2012年11月26日, at 下午1:54, Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > >> > >> I wonder why this IDN link appears to me using sinograms in its domain > >> name, instead of Deseret letters. The link works, but my browser cannot > >> display it and its displays the Punycoded name instead without decoding it. > >> > >> This is strange because I do have Deseret fonts installed and I can > >> view "Unicoded" HTML pages containing Deseret letters. > >> > >> > >> 2012/11/26 John H. Jenkins <jenk...@apple.com> > >> > >>> Or, if one prefers: > >>> > >>> http://www.井作恆.net/XKCD/1137.html<http://www.xn--elqus623b.net/XKCD/1137.html> > >>> > >>> On 2012年11月21日, at 上午10:22, Deborah Goldsmith <golds...@apple.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> http://xkcd.com/1137/ > >>> > >>> Finally, an xkcd for Unicoders. :-) > >>> > >>> Debbie > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >