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Posted by Gary on 07/24/06 22:09
Hello,
If any designers have had experience with foreign-language (non-latin font)
display on websites, I would appreciate some input. I have some pages in
hebrew, hindi & gujerati characters that do not display properly on Mac's
using IE 5.2.3. In other languages, the page displayed properly, but the
metatag (ie <title>) was gibberish. This particular Mac had it's IE pref's
updated to include font support for those specific languages. This may be a
minor share of user-demographics, but it still affects a significant number
of visitors. I've tested the pages on the latest 3 versions of IE, FF &
Opera for PC, and no display problems at all.
Since the language & font display issue is multi-dimensional and complex
problem, I don't expect any easy answers, but I thought that since the
problem seems to apply to a narrow band of platform/browser users, that
there might be a simple workaround for that particular user group.
Unfortunately, I didn't have a chance to try secondary browsers on the Mac.
In other enquiries I've posted, I've had answers and opinions that point to
a large number of possible variables, from fonts installed on visitor's
computer systems, browser font support on users systems, to <lang> tags,
proper css, proper char coding with &#xxx; , and on and on.
I'd appreciate any input from those familiar with localization issues on
various platforms & browsers.
thanks....
Gary
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