Posted by Neredbojias on 08/23/05 14:47

With neither quill nor qualm, Rob quothed:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am experimenting with some foreign fonts.
> I listen that the best way to display them is using unicode.
>
> The page now created isn't unicode.
> The question 1 is how I type and generate unicode text ?
>
> Temperorly I set up a page with some font settings in CSS.
> The font is standing http://shalva.comweb.nl/fonts/
>
> I try to let the browser know which font to use with
> <style TYPE="text/css" MEDIA="screen, print">
> <!--
> @font-face { font-family: "Avaza"; src:
> url("http://shalva.comweb.nl/fonts/AVAZA.TTF") }
> body {font-family:Avaza; font-weight:none; }
> -->
> </style>
>
> Second question is this a good way of displaying the foreign characters ?
> Or is there a beter way?
>
> The page is set at:
> http://shalva.comweb.nl/poetry_GE.php
> Or the source code:
> http://shalva.comweb.nl/poetry_GE.phps
>
> Third question is it displaying on your PC correctly ?

I don't think so. The table has a bunch of question marks and the text
below shows all Latin characters. Of course I don't speak Georgy.

> And which type OS and browser you are using ?

IE6, Mozilla 1.7.11, (XP).

>
> If font installed then I asume it works correctly.
>

If the font is supposed to install on *my* system, good luck, buddy.

> Thanks for any advice
> Rob
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Neredbojias
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