Sent by Don A. Elbourne Jr. on 27 October 2003 22:10
> I would suggest reconsidering that, especially as regards to using
> Verdana, see http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html
Thanks for the info on Verdana. I was just using that as an example, but
that's some good info to know.
> OK, but you should check that those fonts really contain all the
> characters that you use on the page. Otherwise you might make the
> situation worse than without any font settings. Hardly any "Unicode font"
> contains all Unicode characters, and most of those fonts contain a
> relatively small subset of Unicode.
Right. And that is why we want to specify the Unicode font for the
particular text.
> You effectively need to find selectors that you can use, and defining a
> class is the way to be used when nothing more convenient applies.
> If the texts that need special characters appear inside normal text,
> then <span> with class is often the only feasible approach. I would avoid
> using a class name like "unicode". It really does not reflect the meaning.
> For example, if you need special characters for expressing pronunciation
> in IPA notation, you could use class="ipa". If for mathematical
> expressions, perhaps class="math". If for text in Russian, maybe
> class="ru". (In theory, you should use lang="ru" and could then use a
> language selector, but browser support to that is very limited, so
> logically redundant class attributes are needed.) And if you have
> different "special texts", you could use different classes and only later
> decide the font issue, i.e. whether they are best shown each in a
> different font or using something like
> .ipa, .ru { font-family: ...; }
I think this is the suggestion we are going to use, at least the one I'm
going to propose to the team. Thank you. The site will have full books in
Hebrew, Greek, Chinese, Korean, etc. I'm going to suggest that we wrap the
text with class="xx" where xx matches the language code.
Don A. Elbourne Jr.
http://elbourne.org
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