Re: [tlug] Browser/Font Question

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi Jim,


On Monday, January 09, 2012 01:09 PM, Jim Breen wrote:
> First, what do you see here: 直?
> Do you see 十 over 目 with an L wrapper, or 十 over 目 with a long
> stroke under it?  The former is the Japanese version of the glyph, and
> the latter is the Chinese version. It's the one code-point (JIS: 36-30,
> UCS 76f4).


Not sure if this helps, but this is odd...

On Ubuntu + Firefox, I can actually see both.  I see the 
Chinese one by default if I open your e-mail.  However, if I 
change the character encoding from the original to either 
EUC-JP or Shift-JIS, I can see the Japanese version.  The 
original setting was UTF-8.  I also see the Chinese version 
if I switch to Traditional Chinese (BIG5).

Thunderbird is also a bit bizarre (since I POP my e-mail). 
I see the Chinese one only by default and changing the 
encoding to any one of EUC-JP, Shift-JIS, or ISO2022-JP 
doesn't help...it's all gibberish.

I guess if you specify in e-mails and web pages to use the 
Japanese encodings, that would help.  By default, both opens 
your message assuming UTF-8 and that's how it appears.  If 
there isn't another code for the Japanese variant in UTF-8, 
I suppose this means you have to use EUC-JP, etc.?

Ray