David Gerard wrote:
On 21/12/06, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
When you get ?????? it makes sense to install
more fonts. The use of IPA
is problematic because it is often done incorrectly and most people have
not had training to do IPA correctly. It takes a lot of training to do
this correctly. My name for instance is notoriously difficult to
pronounce for people who are not Dutch while even a name like "Bob"
should be written in many ways when you consider in how many ways it is
pronounced.
Indeed. But we're not going to be able to make it a requirement of
editing en:wp that users install more fonts on their (arguably broken)
default-install Windows box.
- d.
And, as I keep on saying, the addition of the correct fonts to the
user's browser does not magically grant the ability to read or even
recognize characters in scripts that a reader is unused to. ("His name?
It's three little boxes, and in the boxes there are a lot of little
straight lines, apart from the ones that are like little hooks or
squares. In the leftmost box, there's a bit of a gap at the bottom left,
and then there's a sort of hooky bit hanging out at the right of the
middle box, which has a few less lines, and then...")
-- Neil