Comments on: What’s Your Favorite Font? http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/04/02/whats-your-favorite-font/ Nick Ramsay blogging from Gifu, Japan. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:37:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Steve http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/04/02/whats-your-favorite-font/#comment-3819 Steve Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:27:44 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=326#comment-3819 9 times out of 10 Arial is my font of choice. 9 times out of 10 Arial is my font of choice.

]]> By: Mike http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/04/02/whats-your-favorite-font/#comment-3742 Mike Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:55:34 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=326#comment-3742 I just love Times New Roman. So standard, so powerful, so authoritative! Yep, it has everything I look for in a font and more! I just love Times New Roman. So standard, so powerful, so authoritative! Yep, it has everything I look for in a font and more!

]]> By: ジェイソン (Jason) http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/04/02/whats-your-favorite-font/#comment-3741 ジェイソン (Jason) Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:46:00 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=326#comment-3741 I agree. It is up to the theme designers to ensure they're selecting a proper unicode-compatible font to display all characters on the site. People who (unknowingly) use a Latin1-based database (which is 99% of all blogs that started with a MySQL 4 database, and about 20% of all sites that started on a MySQL 5 database) can get around the problem of using Katakana, Kanji, Hebrew or Arabic characters by ensuring their sites are UTF-8-ready (which is true by default for everything in WordPress since 2.0, and most blogging packages starting this year). To be completely honest, I'd rather see the W3C make it a "highly advantageous standard" to force all sites and browsers to be 100% UTF-based. Sure, it'll use more bandwidth and take up more space in the database, but it would enable people from everywhere to write and otherwise provide content in their preferred character set. Why do developers and web providers continue to ignore the fact that, while Latin-based characters are used by the majority of people on Earth, it's not the only that way people communicate? :???: Perhaps Web 3.0 will be the true internationalization of the web platform.... I agree. It is up to the theme designers to ensure they’re selecting a proper unicode-compatible font to display all characters on the site. People who (unknowingly) use a Latin1-based database (which is 99% of all blogs that started with a MySQL 4 database, and about 20% of all sites that started on a MySQL 5 database) can get around the problem of using Katakana, Kanji, Hebrew or Arabic characters by ensuring their sites are UTF-8-ready (which is true by default for everything in WordPress since 2.0, and most blogging packages starting this year).

To be completely honest, I’d rather see the W3C make it a “highly advantageous standard” to force all sites and browsers to be 100% UTF-based. Sure, it’ll use more bandwidth and take up more space in the database, but it would enable people from everywhere to write and otherwise provide content in their preferred character set.

Why do developers and web providers continue to ignore the fact that, while Latin-based characters are used by the majority of people on Earth, it’s not the only that way people communicate? :???:

Perhaps Web 3.0 will be the true internationalization of the web platform….

]]> By: Nick Ramsay http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/04/02/whats-your-favorite-font/#comment-3740 Nick Ramsay Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:31:05 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=326#comment-3740 Ah, who doesn't love Comic? :) Ah, who doesn’t love Comic? :)

]]> By: Nick Ramsay http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/04/02/whats-your-favorite-font/#comment-3739 Nick Ramsay Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:30:26 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=326#comment-3739 The problem is that most of us haven't got a clue about font compatibility, so it's really up to the developers (Wordpress, etc.) to use Unicode fonts as default. The problem is that most of us haven’t got a clue about font compatibility, so it’s really up to the developers (Wordpress, etc.) to use Unicode fonts as default.

]]> By: La Flor http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/04/02/whats-your-favorite-font/#comment-3734 La Flor Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:07:57 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=326#comment-3734 Georgia, Comic Sans. Georgia, Comic Sans.

]]> By: ジェイソン (Jason) http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/04/02/whats-your-favorite-font/#comment-3732 ジェイソン (Jason) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:22:01 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=326#comment-3732 I also have a "thing" for Tahoma when writing emails or documents. It's easy on the eyes and doesn't get boring like several pages of Times New Roman or Courier might. That said, if it's internet chat, then I'm all about the FixedSys. Sure, the font is reminiscent of the old days of DOS but, since using it exclusively on mIRC since 1998, I just can't imagine chatting with any other font :P When it comes to posting things online, though, I prefer to use a font that is Unicode compatible. Unfortunately, when people use fonts that are only ASCII or ISO-8859-1 compatible, my katakana becomes a series of question marks :???: I also have a “thing” for Tahoma when writing emails or documents. It’s easy on the eyes and doesn’t get boring like several pages of Times New Roman or Courier might.

That said, if it’s internet chat, then I’m all about the FixedSys. Sure, the font is reminiscent of the old days of DOS but, since using it exclusively on mIRC since 1998, I just can’t imagine chatting with any other font :P

When it comes to posting things online, though, I prefer to use a font that is Unicode compatible. Unfortunately, when people use fonts that are only ASCII or ISO-8859-1 compatible, my katakana becomes a series of question marks :???:

]]> By: Kissowa http://www.longcountdown.com/2008/04/02/whats-your-favorite-font/#comment-3731 Kissowa Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:10:49 +0000 http://www.longcountdown.com/?p=326#comment-3731 I have a thing for Tahoma... Verdana is a close second. ;) I have a thing for Tahoma… Verdana is a close second. ;)

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