[B-Greek] advice on polytonic XP within Int. Explorer

James Tauber jtauber at jtauber.com
Thu Feb 8 06:20:55 EST 2007


I'm fairly sure that in Internet Explorer, you need to make sure the  
font being used supports the code points you are using.

Firefox (and Macs) behaves differently in that if you use a code  
point for which a glyph is not available in the current font, an  
alternative font is substituted for just that character. In contrast,  
Internet Explorer just produce a box. Neither approach is necessarily  
more correct, it's just Firefox on Windows (and most apps on Macs)  
favour displaying the character over getting the font family consistent.

See http://jtauber.com/blog/2005/09/03/font_fallback for some more  
details.

I hope this helps.

James Tauber

On 08/02/2007, at 5:35 AM, Randall Buth wrote:

> XAIREIN,
>
> I am back on an XP machine (ServicePack2) and trying to remember  
> the fastest
> way to set the Internet Explorer to recognize composed-Greek unicode.
>
> (Yes, Greek is already activated in the "Language" section of the  
> Control
> Panel, "Polytonic Greek" is one of the activated keyboard input  
> devices, and
> the keyboard works in other programs.) In Explorer on this Gmail  
> site it
> produces little boxes whenever a 'phthongos', 'perispomenos' or  
> 'bareia' is
> typed with a vowel. Obviously, it is interpreting unicode Greek,  
> but doing
> so monotonally. And also obviously, the keyboard is functioning  
> properly and
> outputting composite Greek unicode, since little boxes appear on  
> the site as
> viewed thru Internet Explorer.
>
> Bottom line--what is the fastest way to configure XP to recognize  
> composite
> Greek unicode,
> and if a particular font needs to be chosen and specified  
> somewhere, which
> unicode font already works?
> (e.g., Arial Unicode MS, should work, interalia.)
>
> EUXARISTW
> Randall Buth
>
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