Comments on:   (pIqaD Support)

By: bang

bang — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:23:20 +0000

Edit: Firefox didn’t succeed in breaking the PUA 100%. If you set your Western (or whatever your default encoding is) fonts to Code2000 (not pIqaD because it lacks the Western script), pIqaD will display. System default or User Defined is not sufficient. Then override page font settings and pIqaD will display.

System font fallback for the PUA was intentionally disabled on FF, which is reasonable. Having to jump through hoops to make the PUA display isn’t.

By: bang

bang — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:28:37 +0000

After a bit of searching and frustration, the inherent problem is that a while back the Firefox coders decided to break the PUA for everyone rather than risk mojibake; for codepoints in the PUA to display on FF the site has to force a font with the relevant codepoints by CSS. User-specification of the font has been deliberately broken. Google Chrome gave me no problems; IE didn’t display the characters until I set the font to Code2000 and then blocked styles (since IE doesn’t recognize any pIqaD fonts as sans-serif).

Qenatlh, I replaced Segoe UI as my system font with Code2000 (for other reasons), and since then I have no problems typing pIqaD into Windows system bars. It should be possible to replace Segoe UI with pIqaD and then add a fallback list for scripts it doesn’t handle.

By: Jimmeh

Jimmeh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:26:30 +0000

it would be nice to see a Uk english version, because i hate seeing the date look goddam retarded.

By: bang

bang — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:26:39 +0000

I’ve had slightly better success with it; pIqaD display properly when the font is Times New Roman in MS Word (it doesn’t work in Notepad at all) and pIqaD appeared in the Vista search bar. Firefox does not display pIqaD. Is it improperly linked to Arial?

By: DeyvID

DeyvID — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:47:34 +0000

I used the installer, and am able to view the pIqaD in websites, and in notepad. It doesn’t work in WordPad. In MS Works’ Word Processor I’m able to type in pIqaD when I select the pIqaD font from the list and change the language bar to OL. Right now it is set to EN and I still see the pIqaD in Firefox’s title bar, and on the Windows taskbar button. My current OS is Windows Vista Home Basic.

Qapla’! majQa’!

By: Qenatlh

Qenatlh — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:00:26 +0000

Hm. While I can type in tlhIngan if I try really hard, it generally involves manually setting the font in programs like Wordpad and Notepad to pIqaD, and pIqaD characters are apparently not available at all in inputboxes using system fonts. So, sadly, no typing in web addresses and usernames and passwords in pIqaD yet.

I’m using Vista Ultimate 64-bit, if that’s informative.