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| Zero999:
--- Quote from: magic on May 16, 2021, 05:49:30 pm --- --- Quote from: Zero999 on May 16, 2021, 02:35:04 pm ---Now this forum supports Unicode, why still use images of flags? The good thing about text is it can be zoomed and scaled, without distortion and pixelation. --- End quote --- Maybe because with increasingly nonsense addition to the standard, font designers are proportionally reluctant to bother implementing it in full :P Can't wait for every Pokemon to get its own glyph ::) Use SVG images if you must. --- End quote --- That's odd. It works for me. What operating system and browser are you using? |
| tkamiya:
It really doesn't matter to me that much. But if I have to have an opinion, I'd prefer LOCATION. I really don't care what country someone represent, born in, or have an affiliation to.... I just want to know, if I suggest a vendor for parts, for example, it's relevant to the OP. As to Japanese English only understandable to Japanese English speakers... I disagree. I was born in Japan and lived there for 17 some odd years. I'm now in US and has been for 30+ years. I cannot understand spoken English by many Japanese folks. My girlfriend is a retired English teacher and is a US born American. She agrees many foreign English speakers speak better English than many Americans. But when it comes to idioms, native speakers have the lead. And languages do not translate 1 to 1. For example, myself included, Japanese English speakers have problem with articles, a, an, the because it doesn't exist in their native language. I have yet to see a concise and correct definition of when and how they can be properly used. By the way.... English taught in Japan is a mixture of British and American English. Teachers explain "do you have" is an equivalent of "have you." I used to speak with slight Australian accent because I learned English by speaking to Australian hams. I found out really quickly, a word "bank" is spoken so differently that I had to modify my speech. |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: magic on May 16, 2021, 05:49:30 pm --- --- Quote from: Zero999 on May 16, 2021, 02:35:04 pm ---Now this forum supports Unicode, why still use images of flags? The good thing about text is it can be zoomed and scaled, without distortion and pixelation. --- End quote --- Maybe because with increasingly nonsense addition to the standard, font designers are proportionally reluctant to bother implementing it in full :P Can't wait for every Pokemon to get its own glyph ::) Use SVG images if you must. --- End quote --- I've just tried it on the Winwoes 10 machine at work and I see the letters GB in different sizes, which is a little better. GBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGBGB Given that Unicode support is patchy across platforms: how is one supposed to know what glyphs are widely supported? I hope that the important Greek letters and symbols such as μ, Ω, π , Δ, ° etc. used in electronics widely supported, otherwise we might as well stick with plain old ASCII. :palm: |
| harerod:
[quote author=tkamiya ... For example, myself included, Japanese English speakers have problem with articles, a, an, the because it doesn't exist in their native language. I have yet to see a concise and correct definition of when and how they can be properly used. ... Have a problem... *scnr* ところで、日本語を大好きだよ。 よろしく、ドイツから。 |
| magic:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on May 17, 2021, 10:17:46 am ---I've just tried it on the Winwoes 10 machine at work and I see the letters GB in different sizes, which is a little better. Given that Unicode support is patchy across platforms: how is one supposed to know what glyphs are widely supported? I hope that the important Greek letters and symbols such as μ, Ω, π , Δ, ° etc. used in electronics widely supported, otherwise we might as well stick with plain old ASCII. :palm: --- End quote --- Now you are becoming enlightened :D I think it depends not only on OS but also on the font in use, though I may be wrong (special handling by the font renderer or whatever) and of course every desktop/mobile OS these days ships with its own default font(s) so for many users it's one and the same. I take the pragmatic approach and assume that everything that is actually useful (Latin/Greek and derivatives, most Asian runes, etc) is likely to be supported, less useful stuff (Egyptian hieroglyphs) is unlikely to be included in most fonts and silly gimmicks (emoticons, flags, pokemon) are likely to be supported by gimmicky software like the latest version of iOS. I use Greek letters a lot and no one has ever called me out. The country extension is utterly :palm: because you are supposed to write a country code in two English letters in some weird encoding (not the basic ASCII part), which may or may not optionally be rendered specially by software which knows the country's flag. It fails on all the original goals of Unicode, which were to reduce software bloat, provide consistent rendering of content text :rant: across platforms and enable people to use computers in their native language. |
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