[Web4lib] RSS and diacritics

[Thomas Dowling]

Jonathan Gorman wrote:
>> all modern web browsers are Unicode based at the core,...
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> Well, yes, but if the font they're using doesn't have anything beyond the basic ascii mapping, they're not what I would call unicode compatible...

The more adept browsers out there figured this out quite a while ago.  
If the font they're using doesn't have a glyph for the character 
requested, they pull the correct glyph from a font that does have it.  
Awkwardly, there's a less adept browser that fails to do this, that has 
about 80% market share...

CSS2 requires that browsers work their way down the list of specified 
fonts to find the right glyph, not just find a matching font name.  
IIRC, Gecko-based browsers and Opera go beyond that to find any system 
font with the right glyph.


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Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu