anyone using Mozilla on VMS, DECwindows and character sets such as iso-8859-x where x is 2 or 5?
From: Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply (helbig_at_astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de)
Date: 02/28/04
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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:16:11 +0000 (UTC)
I'm slowly making progress with Mozilla, DECwindows and unusual fonts.
I've now run across another problem, but I'm not sure if it is an HTML
problem or a problem with Mozilla (and, if so, a generic problem or a
problem with the VMS version) or a problem with DECwindows. Since this
is not really on-topic for comp.os.vms, but on the other hand (perhaps)
too VMS-specific for a non-VMS forum, I'm looking for someone who would
be willing to share experiences via email regarding Mozilla on VMS,
DECwindows, fonts and character sets other than iso-8859-1, in
particular iso-8859-2 and iso-8859-5.)
Here's my specific problem at the moment. I want to display š,
which is an s with an inverted circumflex on top (caron), also known as
š. At first, this displayed as s(, even when specifying the
correct character set. (This character corresponds to the character ¹,
or compose-^-1, in iso-latin-1 or iso-8859-1 or the DEC multinational
character set.) I then downloaded some additional fonts and THEN IT
DISPLAYED CORRECTLY. (I'm still trying to understand how the
information in an HTML page gets translated to a request for certain
fonts in SYS$SYSDEVICE:[VMS$COMMON.SYSFONT...], but that's another
issue.)
Here's the puzzle. I want to include this character on a page which is
using iso-8859-5 (Cyrillic). Normally, one can do this by using the
numeric or name reference, e.g. š or š. This works fine
for, say, ä or å. However, for š it displays it as
s(, like it did before when I didn't have the proper font.
>From another browser, it DOES display correctly, so I don't think there
is a problem with the HTML.
The whole purpose of the š form is to enable the display of
characters which are not in the default character set for the documents,
so it seems strange that this doesn't work.
If I use iso-8859-2 as the default character set, then all three forms
(literal, š, š) DO work.
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