Dear Gunnar,
the reason is either because the terminal you are using does not has
any Unicode fonts installed or, for older browsers, you may have
change its encoding scheme to UTF8 (which still require an Unicode
font for proper rendering).
For a terminal running Windows 2000/XP, it will have no problem at
all displaying Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai characters without
Unicode fonts (using older schemes). So, it is still common to find
many public terminals not having Unicode fonts installed. This is
true in many Internet cafes here in Brisbane as well.
metta,
Yong Peng.
--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Gunnar G䬬mo wrote:
I've tested it at a public terminal in the public library in Visby
(having just some free hours in my own island - attadiipa? - between
the annual meeting of the Gotlandic Language Society/Gutam嬳gillet
and the ship back to the mainland).
Unfortunately, all letters with subpoints (.t .d .n .m .l) appear as
empty squares; the long letters aa ii uu appear as they should,
though.