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Posted by Harlan Messinger on January 29, 2008, 6:20 pm
Please log in for more thread options Harlan Messinger wrote:
> A Hindi consonant that appears without a vowel is understood to be
> followed by -a. Otherwise, the following vowel (or the fact of the
> consonant not being followed by a vowel) is indicated by some symbol
> placed after (to the right) of the consonant, above or below it, or, in
> the case of -i, to the left of it.
>
> Evidently IE6 and Firefox want to treat the -i symbol differently. See
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devan%C4%81gar%C4%AB#Vowels
>
> in both browsers. Each set of three gray columns shows a vowel in
> isolation, in combining form, and as combined with the Devanagari
> consonant /p/. The /pi/ combination appears in the second row on the
> left, in the third column. At the moment it looks correct in IE and not
> in Firefox. (It's hard to say just how the page will look when you pull
> it up because someone's in the middle of massive edits right now.)
>
> Is there any way to handle this so that the correct positioning occurs
> in both browsers?
Strange. When I wrote before, I was using a machine with Windows 2000.
Now, looking in IE*7* and Firefox on Windows Vista, the order is correct
in both browsers. Also, in the second column, IE6 on Windows 2000 and
both browsers on Vista are displaying a dotted circular placeholder to
show where the vowel symbols stands in relation to whatever consonant it
is to accompany. Firefox on Vista doesn't show the placeholder, and in
fact shows some of the vowel symbols not at all in the second column. So
I'm thinking in retrospect that this is more a Windows 2000 font issue,
which means that it's mostly not worth exploring since Windows 2000 is
disappearing.
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