On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:18:10 -0400, suzmccarth <suzmccarth@...>
wrote:

> So my conclusion is that no matter what the browser, or which encoding,
> it is essential that the font be defined. Does that make sense?

Surely. You have to have a font file* in your computer that contains info.
on how to create the glyphs you see. I have Arial Unicode (and 98 SE) ,
and with my limited knowledge, both forms looked OK. However, my Greek is
about at the point where I can make out almost every letter, but have
negligible vocabulary, so the specifics that Suzanne mentioned are things
I wouldn't know about.

*I've read of embedded fonts; presumably those are part of a given
document. I think PDF can include them. Only some are designated to be
embeddable; doing so with others violates copyright, I think.

Maybe it's worth mentioning that the only sure way (practical way, afaik)
to show others what you see on your screen is to "take a screen shot" and
provide the resulting image; that's no longer a text file.

Corrections welcome!

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