

Re: [w3c-wai-ig] <none>

From: Andy Holmes <aholmes84@shaw.ca>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 04:10:15 -0700
To: "P.H.Lauke" <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>, WAI-IG <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Message-id: <3F781317.7080305@shaw.ca>

P.H.Lauke wrote:
>>since people without 
>>suitable fonts are unlikely to be any the wiser if it was 
>>rendered correctly.
> If you're only going to provide the language name in the specific
> language's representation, then I would say the theory has a flaw:
> how about users browsing from machines that are not theirs (e.g.
> library, internet cafe, etc) and which do not have the necessary
> font installed ? They'd get the garbled representation, but WOULD actually
> be the wiser if they could see the correct font...

True, but why (as loose example) would someone say in an Iranian 
internet cafe/library/what have you, be browsing a Russian web site? One 
would expect that a computer/browser being used would have the fonts 
needed by the people from that region (ie. a US cafe might have support 
for Enlgish and Spanish while a Canadian library might have support for 
English and French).

Received on Monday, 29 September 2003 07:09:46 GMT
