On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 12:02, Chris Gehlker wrote:
> On Mar 18, 2004, at 11:46 AM, Jim wrote:
> > My reader is Evolution and I also sometimes get this in
> > mozilla-firebird
> > browsing websites.
> >
> > Does this mean it is possible to not see the contents of some
> > emails/webpages due to this?
>
> I think the OP who said that it's not so much the reader as that you
> have an incomplete font was correct. I'm using Helvetica from a recent
> installation of Yellow Dog and it's showing the Kanji characters. I
> also see Kanji when I go to a Japanese web page.
Fonts will probably never have all the characters in them, there are
just too many of them. If a font supports Japanese Kanji, it probably
doesn't support Hindi (the characters you sent looked like Hindi to
me). Plus, there are probably some fonts that support the first 1000
Kanji or so, but probably not all of them. So in a way, yes, there are
some thing that you can't read on a webpage -- but, could you read them
anyway if they were displayed?
I think the moral of the story here is, if you speak the language and
use it on your computer, you'll have a font that supports it. So,
you're not missing anything that is important to you.
--Ted
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