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Posted by Animesh K on 09/24/07 20:41
Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
> On 2007-09-19 23:37:27 +0200, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au>
> said:
>
>> In article <fcs17t$265j$3@agate.berkeley.edu>,
>> Animesh K <animesh1978@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> dorayme wrote:
>>>> In article <fcplmp$1dub$2@agate.berkeley.edu>,
>>>> Animesh K <animesh1978@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> http://stutimandal.blogspot.com/2007/09/totakastakam.html
>>>>>
>>>>> This page shows fine in FF or Opera. Safari/IE7.0 put slightly bigger
>>>>> replacement characters. And IE 6.0 just fails.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess Trebuchet MS lacks the diacritics fonts. (though it is just a
>>>>> dot above/below the regularly ASCII alphabets).
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> In my Safari 2 and FF (Mac):
>>>>
>>>> "posted by Stutiman?d?ala @ 12:17 PM"
>>>>
>>>> except that the ? is a small bordered unfilled square.
>>>>
>>>> Mostly fine though. Mac IE (perhaps not too surprisingly) is not
>>>> up to the job at all.
>>>>
>>>
>>> How does the page at Stutimandal renders? Do you see boxes here too?
>>>
>>> http://www.stutimandal.com/new/poemgen.php?id=33
>>>
>>
>>
>> This looks fine, no boxes...
>>
>
> Same for me (also with iCab), but there are some odd browser-related
> differences. All three do some font-substitution for the accented
> letters in "Totakstakam". In iCab this is done so well that you don't
> notice the font is different unless you look carefully, but it's a
> lighter font. Second best is Firefox, which also uses a lighter font,
> but in this case a much lighter one so it's obvious at first glance.
> Safari is the worst, because it uses a serif font in a smaller size (OK,
> maybe it's nominally the same size, but it looks smaller to the eye). In
> the text underneath the font substitution is almost undetectable in iCab
> and Firefox, but very obvious in Safari.
>
Thanks for the detailed review. I think I will change the font-family to
a diacritics-supporting one in the next round of updates.
Many thanks,
Animesh
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