Foreign characters in Lit.

[Liar]

No, I don't mean characters as on people, but as in letters. Does anyone know if I for instance can use greek, hebrew or arabic letters in a Lit story or poem?

I know that I can use them here... ﮛﭾﭼ שׁדּ дежзий άέαγδζ
(I have no idea what those mean, I just typed at random.)

But what about stuff submitted to Lit? I have this poem right now, and possibly a story later, that would really gain flavor from using Greek spelling in some places. The title even.

Anyone knows?

 

[Stella_Omega]

I think it has to do with whether or not those characters are loaded onto the receiving computer system. I can see them, because I have default fonts loaded for most world alphabets (Thanks to my kids ) but before that, my browser would show a string of ?????'s

 

[Liar]

's what I thought. But I wndered if it couild be that some typefaces can handle the extended charset, while others can't.

*sigh* better safe than sorry, I guess. I'll go with the western charset.

 

[CharleyH]

No, I don't mean characters as on people, but as in letters. Does anyone know if I for instance can use greek, hebrew or arabic letters in a Lit story or poem?

I know that I can use them here... ﮛﭾﭼ שׁדּ дежзий άέαγδζ
(I have no idea what those mean, I just typed at random.)

But what about stuff submitted to Lit? I have this poem right now, and possibly a story later, that would really gain flavor from using Greek spelling in some places. The title even.

Anyone knows?

Hm, tough. Well you can use them, and maybe some would get it, but how would the communication get through? Of course, unless you did not care?

I think its wild, though.

 

[fifty5]

No, I don't mean characters as on people, but as in letters. Does anyone know if I for instance can use greek, hebrew or arabic letters in a Lit story or poem?

I think you'd best ask The Management. On the Internet, fonts involve both publisher and reader. Greek is widely supported (because of its use in Maths), so I doubt if it's hard, but better ask The Boss...

 

[yui]

Like Stella said, I think it all depends on what codes are enabled by the user, 嘘吐け.

 

[cantdog]

Like Stella said, I think it all depends on what codes are enabled by the user, 嘘吐け.

Tricky. I notice the Arabic went away through the QUOTE function, too. The QUOTE function itself can't handle it, or yours, but it seems to transmit the Hebrew and Greek.

 

[Liar]

Tricky. I notice the Arabic went away through the QUOTE function, too. The QUOTE function itself can't handle it, or yours, but it seems to transmit the Hebrew and Greek.

QUOTEs are italic, which seems to not be supported by some characters.

 

[oggbashan]

It seems likely because there are foreign language fora and stories can be posted in other languages.

It depends how many character sets Lit can support.

However, and here's the rub, to read the characters on Literotica you have to have those character sets enabled on your own computer otherwise you get gibberish. If you can read Urdu or Japanese or Tamil I would presume that you have those character sets enabled.

If you use a European language, most of those characters are included in the standard ASKII set so will be visible.

Og

 

[fifty5]

Right, Og.

If the relevant fonts aren't available on a reader's machine, they can't be displayed properly!

 

[Liar]

Hm, tough. Well you can use them, and maybe some would get it, but how would the communication get through? Of course, unless you did not care?

A bit too little information to make that assumption, wouldn't you think? it would communicate just as intended, trust me.

If the relevant fonts aren't available on a reader's machine, they can't be displayed properly!

Ah, yes. But the rub is, you don't choose what font that is used to display your story. Some fonts do support an extended charset wotn several alphabets. I'm trying to figure out if whatever is in Lit's body text and header does that. Then it's just a matter of a computer on the other side that supports the same. Which is about 99% of all systems today.

 

[fifty5]

Ah, yes. But the rub is, you don't choose what font that is used to display your story. Some fonts do support an extended charset wotn several alphabets. I'm trying to figure out if whatever is in Lit's body text and header does that. Then it's just a matter of a computer on the other side that supports the same. Which is about 99% of all systems today.

Probably better than that, in fact. Looking at the source for this page, it uses a CSS style sheet - and it is possible to look at that in turn (the page header says where it is). That lists fonts in order of preference (tahoma, verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif - but some styles remove tahoma, and others chop it down to just 4 options: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif). Those lists includes both Windows and Linux font names - and for all I know, Mac font names too. Ater that, there's still the problem of which extended characters the reader's font supports...

As I said, because of the use of greek letters in maths, those tended to be built in way back, but the oriental ones are likely (as mentioned above) to be less reliable.

Bottom line?

Greek's almost certain to work fine, Liar.

 

[yui]

but the oriental ones are likely (as mentioned above) to be less reliable.

Hey!


J/K, but at least you know I read your posts.