Posted by Athel Cornish-Bowden on 09/20/07 08:44

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.

--
athel

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