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Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 3:43
PM
Subject: [phoNet] Browser
difficulties.
It isn't a serious problem for me; I just
wondered if it would make other members' life difficult. It's probably some
fault in a particular IE5/OutlookEx5 edition (though I updated mine yesterday
and it didn't help), as Widows95/98 applications in general have no difficulty
with Unicode characters. For example, UTX files can be opened in Word and
there are no font problems. It's only one vowel, after all, so when I see a
square I know what it is. I've already suggested a foolproof way of posting
transcriptions, especially long ones, as UTX text files. Don't worry, I can
live with it.
Piotr
I have replicated Piotr's problem on a different PC using earlier
versions of both W95 and Netscape (4.5 in this case). I got squares. However,
on this machine with a later version of W95 and using Netscape 4.7, the script
a, [ɑ], ː and the schwa display perfectly. It displays flawlessly in MS
Outlook Express as well (I'm composing this in OL).
One I have noticed is that the combining diacritics tend to not center
themselves correctly over or under the letter. This might also be an artifact
of what browser you use, and what edition it
is.