[tlug] Re: Some UTF8 Japanese breaks out of vertical flow

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@example.com>]

Dave M G <martin@example.com> moaned:

> This isn't Linux, but Japanese encoding related. I hope that is
> acceptable here, since I know quite a few of you are masters of Japanese
> encoding issues.
>
> On the following web site, I have a menu written in Japanese (on the
> right side, carried by a sumo-cherub):
> http://nihongode.jp
>
> The text formatted with CSS, where the menu is a  <ul> list, and each
> <li> item is constrained to a width of 1em. Since the width of each list
> item is only one character wide, this forces each character to break to
> the next line, giving the appearance of veritcal orientation.
>
> It almost works perfectly. Most of the text obeys the constraint.
> However, some text items, such as punctuation and small size Japanese
> characters (like っ or ィ ), break out of the vertical flow and follow a
> left-to-right orientation.

Totally browser-dependent. I hate to say this, but I checked it out
using IE <shudder/> running on you-know-what, and it displayed correctly.

It was cocked up with Firefox. I suspect the latter is trying to do something
smart with the rendering. File a fault report. Tell 'em it works fine with IE.

Jim

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Jim Breen
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/