Re: Rosetta encoding

At 09:14 AM 4/1/2003, Nicholas Bodley wrote:

>In particular, some versions of a browser render Vietnamese text
>with the uniquely-VN letters displaced in both x and y, bold, and
>maybe a different point/pixel size. The rendering looks like something
>the cat dragged in, with hints of a ransom note. Switching fonts and
>weight/slant within a word just should not happen, unless the author
>explicitly intends it to happen.

How a particular combination of broswer, font and system chooses to render
Vietnamese text is not determined by Unicode, so this is hardly evidence of
'weaknesses' in Unicode.

John Hudson

Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@...

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