My suggestions is that we wrap any text needing a particular Unicode font with a span and give that span a class attribute that matches the language code. For example <span class="he"> for Hebrew. This will be more semantically rich and forward compatible. We can then specify the Unicode font in the CSS.
by grace alone, Don A. Elbourne Jr. http://elbourne.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don A. Elbourne Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Web tool - unicode > Chris, > > I think you are right. That's what I was saying. I think we just need the > UTF-8 meta tag in the page. I don't think the meta tag is absolutely > necessary, but it is best practice afaik. > > by grace alone, > > Don A. Elbourne Jr. > http://elbourne.org > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 12:47 PM > Subject: Re: [sword-devel] OSIS Web tool > > > > > > > > Joachim Ansorg wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > >>I have not worked with Unicode in web pages much so I admit my > ignorance. > > >>Chris investigated this a while back and I thought he had added the > > >>document encoding in the meta tag. But I don't see it now. > > > > > > > > > Yes, that's fine. That is for the browser to see that the page is in > uTF8. > > > But if "foreign" chars like Hebrew appear in the page we have to make > the text > > > use a special unicode font which has all the required unicode > characters. So > > > I wrap the unicode text with a span and set the right font-family there. > > > Often unicode needs a larger font-size because unicode chars are hard to > see > > > if it's hebrew or something similair. > > > > Don & Joachim, > > > > Is this really necessary? (Have you seen text displayed incorrectly > > using a browser?) > > > > Font selection is essentially the browser's job. I'm not sure if that's > > necessarily so, but both MSIE and Mozilla select fonts on the basis of > > scripts used in a document. > > > > If we need to do something more complex, since we have ICU at our > > disposal, we can tag strings of text as using specific scripts, then > > specify fonts in the CSS on that basis. > > > > --Chris > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > sword-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
