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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 11/23/52 11:42
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> "tt" <teddybubu@Hotrmail.com> wrote:
[snip...]
> What is Ethiopian Jiret font and why would you use it? It sounds
> like an attempt to extend character repertoire with fontistic
> tricks.
That was my first reaction too, but, as you read on, it should've
become clearer that it was not so...
> In any case, surely more than 99 % of Internet users' computers
> don't contain such a font.
Agreed. However, if they can read Ethiopic, they may already have an
Ethiopic-capable font, no?
> > The body of the html has the following code that gets the non
> > microsoft font and displays it:
> > <td width="85%" class="style27 "><a href="RevAgency.htm"
> > class="menu">የገቢ
> > አስተዳደር</a></td>
You know as well as I do that those Unicode points are Ethiopic, so
you're being a bit harsh on the poster. Even if I agree with you that
the initial posting was rather inept.
> > The result is that it gets the correct font even though the
> > letters አ is not the unicode # for that specific letter.
What?
U+12A0 አ ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE GLOTTAL A
> What specific letter, which correct font?
Indeed.
But let's address the general topic, irrespective of the somewhat
incoherent detailed questions. On the one hand:
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html#ethiopic
may be helpful. On the other hand, either the reader *does* have a
font which supports Ethiopic (which might or might not be the one
mentioned) - in which case supplying them with some CSS that attempts
to select a font that they haven't got is counter-productive (I think
the only font I've got that supports Ethiopic is Code2000). Or, they
haven't got *any* font which supports Ethiopic - in which case merely
supplying them with some CSS that attempts to select one is useless.
Either way, the *reader* needs a font which supports Ethiopic (i.e
they have to install one if they haven't yet got one - at least,
that's the way the WWW usually works).
Indeed the first font on Alan Wood's list of fonts supporting Ethiopic
was "Ethiopia Jiret"(sic). Its link is semi-broken, but there's
enough clue on the status-404 response page to find
http://www.senamirmir.com/projects/typography/ethiopic_fonts.html
However, there *are* several other Ethiopic-capable fonts listed on
Alan Wood's page.
The best thing that the *author* can do, in my experience of
relatively unusual scripts, is to leave the choice of font to the
browser.
cheers
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