About Unicode font for Ch.

[Leanne Riding]

I can elaborate on the Unicode font for those interested...

Unicode fonts can contain the symbols desired, but Joe web user may 
still run into the "weird character" problem (Hey, why is every thing 
look like "???? ????"). That's because most unicode fonts contain only 
the lowest ranges of character sets. No matter what kind of font is 
used, Joe user will have to be advised he needs a font, and then be able 
to download and install it. Joe user needs to know that his web browser 
can be switched to ISO-8859-1 (basic latin) or UTF-8 (unicode) as 
required. Then, if the web page designer hasn't fuddled it up somehow, 
everything should look okay.

An inadvertent advantage to Unicode -- when it doesn't work, the user 
just sees question marks or wierdness. They can easily tell that 
something's wrong. On the downside, they can't made heads or tails out 
it.

In Unicode's favor, Microsoft and Apple prefer Unicode now. New Unicode 
ranges can be proposed, by the very organized and patient. A very large 
number of cool diacritical marks are already provided for, though very 
few fonts use them properly, and then only selectively.

It would be great if the font scheme had gov't backing. For a type face 
to become a standard, font projects require professional organization, 
funding, and official sanction by standards-creating bodies. The reason 
for all that beurocracy is to prevent the project from caving in when 
funds run out or original creator's interests inevitably wane.

It's all "Ελληνικά" to me...(a little Unicode test for you ... in greek).

On Friday, June 11, 2004, at 12:04 , hzenk at PDX.EDU wrote:

> Lilend,
>
> Thanks for the link.  I was wondering about how that story would come 
> out.  I'm
> of course disappointed to see yet another debacle with our Chinuk Wawa 
> font,
> showing the key strokes but not the symbols they're supposed to yield.  
> This
> happens to us a LOT.  Shouldn't we perhaps devise an alternate 
> (unicode?) font
> with comparable symbols, perhaps with a standard set of examples for 
> public
> presentation purposes.  Henry

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