03-24-2011, 04:03 AM
There already exists Estragelo Unicode characters per as mentioned in here: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://aramaicnt.tripod.com/HTML/unicode.html">http://aramaicnt.tripod.com/HTML/unicode.html</a><!-- m -->
These are natively supported on Windows XP and up, using Syriac (Phonetic) keyboard and Estrangelo Edessa font (both coming with Windows).
None of the alternative fonts I used came close to what Syriac (Phonetic) keyboard and Estrangelo Edessa font offers:
- When Syriac keyboard is used, input direction automatically changes to right to left
- Letters change form automatically depending if they are initial, median or final.
- Very nice looking Estragelo characters.
But when I try to input Unicode chars in the text of a message for this forum, I get a mysql error. Is this by design? It looks like mysql is set such to accept only Ansi chars? I think it would be nice to allow Unicode, as most browsers these days can handle Unicode.
Greg
These are natively supported on Windows XP and up, using Syriac (Phonetic) keyboard and Estrangelo Edessa font (both coming with Windows).
None of the alternative fonts I used came close to what Syriac (Phonetic) keyboard and Estrangelo Edessa font offers:
- When Syriac keyboard is used, input direction automatically changes to right to left
- Letters change form automatically depending if they are initial, median or final.
- Very nice looking Estragelo characters.
But when I try to input Unicode chars in the text of a message for this forum, I get a mysql error. Is this by design? It looks like mysql is set such to accept only Ansi chars? I think it would be nice to allow Unicode, as most browsers these days can handle Unicode.
Greg