[Indic-computing-devel] Re: saraswati PCF format - mozilla ctl

[Jungshik S. <js...@ma...>]

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Jungshik Shin wrote:

> If you still have a problem, launch Mozilla under hi_IN.UTF-8
> (hi_IN.utf8) locale. That is, set your locale to that
> before launching Mozilla.
>
> $ LC_ALL=hi_IN.UTF-8 mozilla

  If you don't like launching Mozilla under hi_IN locale
(for instance, you're in UK and you prefer en_UK.UTF-8),
there are two ways:

  A. set LC_CTYPE=hi_IN.UTF-8, but set  LANG to en_UK.UTF-8
   (do not define other LC* variables unless you want to
    override LANG)

  B. 'enlighten' your friends and other web developers that
    it's always a good practice to specify the language of
    the content in html and xhtml.  See
    http://www.w3.org/International (tips and faqs) as to how
    to specify the language of your web content

I wrote a few times to BBC to specify 'lang=hi' in their BBC Hindi site
and was finally told that they would in a couple of weeks.

> BTW, you may try my patch for bug 215219
> (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215219).  It doesn't rely
> on Sun fonts but take advantage of opentype fonts. You have to build a
> mozilla with 'gtk2' and 'xft' (but ctl is NOT necessary).

 If you need this patch, Mozilla doesn't need the help of
'lang/xml:lang' (or the locale), but still it's a good practice to specify
the language of web contents.

 Jungshik