At 16:38 -0400 2008-07-24, Jimmy Wales wrote:
The Zawgyi font
is not compliant with Unicode and I will have
nothing to do with it.
*nod* I think we will not be asking you to have anything to do with it.
However, it is freely licensed, available today, and apparently
quite popular, right?
It is not Unicode compliant and therefore violates the W3C
recommendations for Internet use.
I am a bit of a technical weakling here. Can we
support both at the
same time easily enough?
Not on
my.wikipedia.org. It would be like having French supported
with both MacRoman and Windows 1252 code pages. The text encoding has
to be conformant to Unicode 5.1 or it is useless and confusing to the
user.
Okisan and his friends have their own wiki. I am sure many of the
articles there have merit, and one day, when the my.wiki is ready,
they can be transcoded and migrated.
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Michael Everson *
http://www.evertype.com