Re: Term for kana subtext on kanji?

From: Ｓｒｉｎ・Ｔｕａｒ (SrinTuar_at_example.net)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 05:15:36 GMT

dareka wrote:
> I think, usually, Japanese reader program can display vertical
> writing with furigana or, at least, that's the way ordinary
> Japanese novel books should be read.
>
> http://www.izu.co.jp/~at-sushi/aozora/viewer.html
>
> I wonder why the browsers or HTTP, or other things like
> editors don't support vertical writing while they bothered to
> care to support stupid things like Unicode. Because all texts
> should be displayed in new-fangled Uni-text-writing-direction?

Um, unicode has nothing to do with writing direction.

The problem is mostly in web browsers and plain text display
systems. The CSS and HTML specs do specify how to declare text
to be vertical (top to bottom, right to left).

MS's IE does support vertical mode text, but IE is not
safe to use on the internet. Mozilla, sadly, does not support it
yet. The mozilla groups priorities seem to have shifted away from
i18n recently. They dont even have ruby support :(

Plain-text files are a different matter. By definition they have
no markup, so you viewer would have to let you choose to change
display between different modes. (for things such as most usenet
posts there is no way to specify that youd like your post to show
up as vertical mode text, afaik)

I, for one, would like to see vertical mode text and ruby text
well supported in web browsers. (and all pages should be updated
to be in unicode as well)

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