Fonts (was Re: [etoys-dev] Wording in Clouds)

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 03.08.2009, at 10:51, Edward Cherlin wrote:

> 2009/8/1 Yoshiki Ohshima <yoshiki at vpri.org>:
>> At Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:10:56 -0700,
>> Edward Cherlin wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima<yoshiki at vpri.org>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> At Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:05:30 -0700,
>>>> Andreas Raab wrote:
>
>>>>> Ah, that explains it. Is there a way of telling directly from  
>>>>> the font
>>>>> which language(s) they are supposed to support? Or is this trial  
>>>>> and error?
>>>
>>> The font name is in the language. This works for me, since I lived  
>>> in
>>> Korea and Japan, but not for foreigners in general. For example, on
>>> Linux, Batang, Dotum, and Baekmuk ( $(C9Y4g (B,  $(C555k (B,  $ 
>>> (C9i9, (B) are Korean; Kaiti,
>>> Mingti, and Sungti ( $B\4BN (B,  $BL at BN (B, $BAWBN (B ) are  
>>> Chinese; Kochi and Sazanami  $B!J$3$A (B,
>>>  $B8NCN (B;  $B$5$6$J$_ (B,  $B:YGH (B) are Japanese.
>
> Do you know why your mail software is not rendering and retransmitting
> Japanese correctly?


Yoshiki's reply had these chars display fine for me.

But our mail/forums gateway messes up encodings:

http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-284

- Bert -