[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Unicode: is it safe to use it ?



Christophe Courtois <christophe@courtois.cc> writes:

>  Le Vendredi 22 Août 2003 00:08, Alex Malinovich a déclamé :
> >  Assuming you're exchanging messages with friends who have French,
> >  Japanese, and English fonts installed, and that their mailers
> >  support Unicode, you'll obviously have no problem. Assuming that
> >  they speak and
>  
>  Yeah, it's OK. With Kmail, I can use : French ( Å? Ê â?¬ Ã?
>  ), German ( Ã?), Polish (caÅ?ego Å?wiata. DostÄ?pne sÄ?
>  teŌ ŜŜ), Chinese (
>  æ?°è??ã??å??業信æ?¯ã??æ??å??è??
>  ), Japanese
>  (ã??ã?³ã?¹ã?»ã?šã?¬ã?¯ã??ã?­ã??ã?«
>  ), Thaï
>  (àž?àž£àž°àž£àž²àž?àž?àž³àž£àžŽàžªàž¡à¹?àž?à¹?àž?àž?àž£àž°à¹?àž?àž?àž£àž±àž?àž?àž£àž²àž?àžªàžžàž?àž²àž¯
>  àžªàž¢àž²àž¡àž?), Hebrew (×?×?ך×?×? -
>  ×?×?×?ך×?×? ×?ק×?×?ך׀), something from
>  India (à¥?à€? à€?à€° à€°à€Ÿà€·à¥?à€?à¥?à€°à€ªà€€à€¿
>  à€žà€Šà¥?à€Šà€Ÿà€® à€¹à¥?à€žà¥?à€š à€žà¥? à€®à€¿à€²
>  à€?à¥?à€?à¥? à€¹à¥?à€?. ), Russian (СлПва О
>  ÐŒÑ?зÑ?ка)...
>  
>  The only problem is to have a nice font to display the message. For 
>  example, I use Bitstream fonts.

Hmm, AFAIK, for me, Bitsream has no way to handle Unicode. Am I missing
something ?

>  Charset here is utf-8.

Yep and it seems it doesn't display correctly with my MUA (Gnus) which
is quite weird because it is known to handle pretty well (at least
Emacs) Unicode even if it is not perfect (understand fully functional).

zeDek
-- 
Linux was designed by computer nuts, for computer nuts. 
Everyone else is just along for the ride. (Eugene O'Neil)

Attachment: pgp0ALNczS_tW.pgp
Description: PGP signature


Reply to: