Tag Archives: Mac

Beijing Olympics on Safari is a nonstarter

The official Beijing Olympics website is great to look at, but sadly, does not work under Safari on the Mac. Here’s what it looks like:   As opposed to what it should look like when rendered using Firefox on the Mac:   It’s not as if Firefox is hugely popular in China either. Firefox 3 […]

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E-Sanvada and Sinhala UNICODE on OS X Leopard

I last blogged about Sinhala script support in OS X Leopard in April this year and didn’t have much hopes of seeing correctly rendered fonts when I checked out E-Sanvada, a (great new) website on developmental issues in Sinhala. I was very surprised to see this: The Sinhala script on E-Sanvada is rendered perfectly. For […]

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Sinhala on OS X Leopard – Still out of luck

Cerno’s post encouraged me to go back to what I had written mid-last year on the lack of Sinhala language UNICODE support on Macs. At the time I was on Tiger, Safari 2 and Firefox 2. Here’s the same page as before on the new browsers: Click for larger image – Safari 3 on left, […]

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