Posted by alexdoulou on October 14, 2004, 11:14 am
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Hello,
I am trying to type greek fonts into common html forms on the Internet
explorer but erroneous text is being typed instead of clear greek.
Greek language pack is installed correctly.
Encoding for greek is OK.
What is the problem?
Thanks in advance for your answers,
Alex
Posted by user on October 14, 2004, 6:34 pm
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Once upon a time *alexdoulou* wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to type greek fonts into common html forms on the Internet
> explorer but erroneous text is being typed instead of clear greek.
>
> Greek language pack is installed correctly.
> Encoding for greek is OK.
>
> What is the problem?
>
> Thanks in advance for your answers,
> Alex
The server don't support Greek fonts in forms?
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/Arne
Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on October 14, 2004, 7:24 pm
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alexdoulou@yahoo.gr (alexdoulou) wrote:
> Hello,
Khaire!
> I am trying to type greek fonts into common html forms on the Internet
> explorer but erroneous text is being typed instead of clear greek.
You don't type fonts. You type characters, which might or might not be
echoed on the screen using some font(s). The distinction between a
character and its visual appearance (a glyph from some font) is a
fundamental one, and it has been said that nobody can really understand
it without understanding Plato's concept of "idea". :-) But as a
simple (?) thought experiment, consider the possibility of filling out a
form with an interface where you enter the characters from keyboard or
Braille input device and the browser _speaks_ them to you; look, mo, no
fonts! :-)
> Greek language pack is installed correctly.
> Encoding for greek is OK.
Maybe. But the first thing to check is the encoding of the page
containing the form. For this, a URL is needed. If the encoding is OK,
then the next question is _how_ you try to enter Greek characters.
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Posted by Philip Ronan on October 14, 2004, 7:58 pm
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alexdoulou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to type greek fonts into common html forms on the Internet
> explorer but erroneous text is being typed instead of clear greek.
>
> Greek language pack is installed correctly.
> Encoding for greek is OK.
>
> What is the problem?
>
> Thanks in advance for your answers,
> Alex
I think the problem is Internet Explorer. I've had the same problem entering
Japanese text into forms. Here are 3 things you could try doing:
1. Use a different browser.
2. Go to your Internet Explorer settings, and turn off the option
called "Use stylesheets"
3. Create a css file containing this line:
INPUT, TEXTAREA { font-family: Athenian; }
(replace "Athenian" with the name of a Greek font on your system)
Save this file and tell Internet Explorer to use it as your default
stylesheet.
Phil
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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on October 14, 2004, 10:29 pm
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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, alexdoulou wrote:
> I am trying to type greek fonts into common html forms on the Internet
> explorer but erroneous text is being typed instead of clear greek.
This (i18n forms input, not specifically Greek) is one of my
specialist subjects. But for any kind of useful diagnostics, we need
a URL that we can try out.
> Greek language pack is installed correctly.
> Encoding for greek is OK.
(I don't know how you can be so sure. You could be right, but how
can we know, with the limited amount of detail you have presented
here? Your emphasis on "fonts" is, to say the least, rather worrying
in an HTML context. HTML doesn't really work like that.)
> What is the problem?
The main problem, as I see it, is that you're not presenting the
actual patient to the doctor. What would you expect if you went to
the doctor and described your brother's symptoms? Surely the doctor
would want to examine your brother in person before reaching a
worthwhile conclusion, no? In the same way, we at least want to see a
URL where we can test whatever it is that you are trying.
If you want to get technical, you could take a look at
http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/form-i18n.html
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