Re: What's up with UTF-8 Support?

Tony Mechelynck wrote:
> David McRitchie wrote:
> [...]
>> Yipes, I just saw the other reply to look at
>>   http://marathi-kavita.blogspot.com/
>> and if that is what the problem is,  I can't look
>> at it myself, and don't dare install complete font
>> on my system.   I think you would have to have
>> Win XP or higher to have complete UTF-8 fonts.
> 
> I can see it correctly in Fx2, but it's in devanagari script and I 
> happen to have lots of fonts for many scripts installed on this Linux 
> system. To anyone (on any platform) unable to see that page correctly 
> (and wishing to), I'd recommend installing a content pack (or a fonts 
> package) for the languages of the Indian subcontinent. Depending on 
> platform, a reboot may or may not be necessary.

The bad point is that, under Windows at least, if the characters are 
missing on the system, there will be a suggestion to download the 
language pack that corresponds to the character encoding of the page, 
but there is no such hint to the user when the encoding is UTF-8.

Of course this is harder to do, but as UTF-8 becomes the norm, it would 
be more and more useful.

FU2 i18n.