SC - The Chinese source thread...

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Greetings,

This email was just forwarded to me. Since we have discussed this
before, 
I thought this might be of interest here.

In addition, and this may be discussed on the site mentioned, I would
prefer folks not use the single-character fraction symbols for 1/2 and
1/4 etc. I get a lot of recipes from this list that show up with other
characters substituted for these. While I can always ask the original
author to resend these, it is a bother for both and sometimes I don't
notice it and they the message gets into the Florilegium uncorrected.

Thanks.
  Stefan li Rous
  (no sig from work) stefan at texas.net

> Subject: Lost characters in HTML
> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:29:11 -0500
> From: Ginny Barnett <barnett at chesapeake.tokheim.com>
> To: Merry Rose <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> 
> Greetings to all good gentles in Atlantia,
> 
> Several days ago, I was looking for international currency symbols and 
> stumbled across the following site:  "Character Set Restrictions Imposed by 
> Common Internet Media."
> http://www.jhall.demon.co.uk/currency/charset.html
> 
> It explains the requirements for special characters (not just currency) 
> that need to be displayed and printed in email, HTML, and news groups.  Why 
> am I bringing this up?
> 
> Well, I've just printed a 49-page document that included hundreds of 
> Scadian names.  The author very carefully inserted all the correct Norse, 
> Saxon, German, etc. characters so she was sure every person's name was 
> spelled correctly.  I know the author entered these special characters, 
> because I looked at the code in WordPad, and they're there.
> 
> Unfortunately, all that careful work was wasted.  HTML demands special 
> treatment for special characters;  if those codes are not entered, names 
> like Berengare and Esston are displayed and printed as B<ng< and 
> Esst[]n.  (I've omitted the accents in Berengare and Esston, 'cause they 
> don't come out in email, either, without using special characters that some 
> email software doesn't know how to interpret.)
> 
> No doubt, many people use HTML publishers that (one would assume) interpret 
> special characters correctly.  Some publishers may not, however;  so some 
> additional editing directly in HTML may become necessary when we use these 
> characters.
> 
> Should we even use these characters?  Maybe not.  Some older browsers may 
> not be capable of displaying these characters correctly.  In addition, for 
> some very unusual characters, the browser must be configured to use a 
> Unicode-type font, and not all people have a Unicode font installed on 
> their PC's.  I'm not sure, but it may also be necessary for multilanguage 
> support to be turned on, and how many people in the United States think of 
> that?
> 
> In summary, we either need to leave out the special characters entirely and 
> just use the ones on our regular keyboard, or we need to use the HTML 
> codes.  If you have Scadian friends who create web pages, could you let 
> them know about the above site?  It may save them a lot of wasted energy.
> 
> Bethoc ingen Alpin
> (Ginny Barnett)         (757) 857-3127
> 5804 Andrea Drive
> Norfolk, VA  23518      barnett at chesapeake.tokheim.com
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