[iyonix-support] Re: Netsurf Printing; !Unicode.

In article <gemini.j655550025984024k.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   David J. Ruck <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Barry E Allen <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In article <gemini.j652tc000clri024k.druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, David J. Ruck
> > <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > In message <4e6b9b93f3gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Gary Locock
> > >           <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Not about to start yet another thread about the woeful state of
> > > > browsers for RO in general

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> The point the original post was trying to make was about the lack of
> unicode support in the RISC OS 5 printing system,

Agreed

> and as your reply above
> demonstrates this has been completely lost in a general rant about
> browsers.

Actually Dave, it is you that has gone off at a tangent.  The 'rant' as you
call it (I call it an "Introduction") is to point out that the issue of
printing from !Netsurf is /particularly/ relevant to Iyonix users, because we
have even even fewer browser alternatives than users of <RO5 hardware.

> Something which has pointed out many times, the Iyonix support
> mailing list is NOT the place for.

I can't think of a better place to raise the issue of RO5 Unicode support.

[Snip Strop]

> The only connection Castle have with web browsers is
> they bundle a 3rd party one with the machine, and in the absence of another
> browser in a suitable condition for release, there is nothing they can do
> about that.

Please stick to the point. If Castle don't have control over Unicode support
in !Printers and the Font Manager in RO5, then who does?

Not that I understand /why/ this issue exists.  But I do understand that it
means that one of the few reasonably competent browsers is crippled in an
important regard on Iyonixes.

ATB

Gary

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