[thelist] Do these UNICODE characters work - page check

[Bob Easton]

Bob Easton wrote:

> Please visit this page and answer the question there.
> 
> http://eleaston.com/bob/ipa.asp
> 
> I'm reworking a language site that needs to display certain Unicode 
> characters known as IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) characters. 
> The page is coded with charset=utf-8, and I'm using fonts from several 
> platforms that are reputed to contain the characters.
> 
> The challenge is how well does it work in various browsers.  I would 
> really appreciate you taking a few seconds to check the page and answer 
> the form ... especially for non-IE browsers and all platforms.
> 

THANKS to all who helped with this testing!  There were 130 results in 
the past week.  Of those 26 failed to see the characters, an even 20% 
failure rate.

The test used some relatively obscure Unicode characters, characters 
known to exist in only a few fonts, such as Lucida Sans Unicode.

I have not yet analyzed the UA strings in great detail, but the failures 
appear to be from older systems such as Win98-IE3, OS-8 and earlier 
Macs, Konqueror on Linux, Amaya, Dillo, HotJava, and WebTV. thanks for 
that one <:-}

Modern browsers on WinNT and later, or Mac OS-9 and later, worked well.

The tests reiterate the need for two conditions, browsers smart enough 
to decode Unicode, and font availability.

Thanks again to all who helped.  Very much appreciated!

-- 
Bob Easton