On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 14:33 +0100, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > BTW being able to render Chinese just fine if a friend of mine happens > to want to check a Chinese web site on my laptop sounds like a useful > issue to me, even if I'm sacrificing 10MB of my harddisk for it. You don't have to be Chinese; there is something wonderful about the fact that when you accidentally land on a website that is in another language you see Japanese or Hebrew or Cyrillic. We're smart enough to figure it out from there, but it's a lot harder to make sense of thing when all you see is page of four digit Unicode squares. That looks like a bug; a language you can't read in a character set that is foreign to you is going to look strange, but at least it is going to look like language. Anyone remember what 1997 was like? Yikes. Here's props going out to all the people who have made the Linux, X, and the GNOME desktop a better place because of their hard work on fonts and language support. AfC Singapore -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics is an operations and engineering consultancy focusing on IT strategy, organizational architecture, systems review, and effective procedures for change management. We actively carry out research and development in these areas on behalf of our clients, and enable successful use of open source in their mission critical enterprises, worldwide. http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ Sydney New York Toronto London
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