"my browser ... puts up a box"

[Martin Duerst]

Well, yes, but I doubt that John did that in the context of
en, en-gb, and en-gb-oed, all of which rather rarely require
Han characters.

Regards,    Martin.

At 20:06 03/05/30 +0100, Misha Wolf wrote:
>Hi Martin,
>
>John may be referring to the behaviour of IE, which, when it
>detects that a page contains Han characters, puts up a dialog
>box, asking whether the user wants to download the appropriate
>fonts etc.
>
>Regards,
>Misha
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst at w3.org]
>Sent: 30 May 2003 16:06
>To: Scripts2 at sesame.demon.co.uk; ietf-languages at iana.org
>Subject: Re: Pros and cons of adding a en-GB-oxford language tag
>
>
>At 08:38 03/05/30 +0000, John Clews wrote:
> >For another thing, I dislike the fact that my browser currently sees
> >language tags, or other tags, in HTML files, and puts up a box
> >advising me to download something that I don't want to download, on
> >too many occasions already, when what I already have loaded may be
> >adequate.
> >
> >If en-gb-oxford was added, one implication might be that I had to do
> >this on far more HTML files that my browser looked at, slowing down
> >all my work when looking at the web. That would be far more annoying
> >than seeing alternative spellings (which happens with a fairly small
> >proportion of words).
>
>What you describe sounds really strange. What browser, with what
>setting, are you using? Can you describe exactly what happens,
>with the actual texts? In particular the 'puts up a box' part?
>
>Regards,   Martin.
>
>
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