Language support

Alphabets and Character sets

Web pages on a GlyphGate server may be authored in any encoding scheme that is supported by the server (Unicode, single-byte code pages, or multi-byte code pages), and a few that are not supported by the server (e.g. TSCII, ISCII).

All formats are equally suitable because GlyphGate converts the text content to the most suitable format for a browser. In most cases this is a text format suitable for showing virtually any language, known as UTF-8 encoded Unicode. This format lets GlyphGate refine web pages that uses alphabets that could consist of more than 100 000 different characters, even on platforms that typically only deal with alphabets with less than 256 characters or less than 65535 characters. The 65535 character limit is unfortunatelly quite common in most computers today.

New: Previous version of GlyphGate where not able to produce Unicode encoded text for some platforms, but would use non-standard encoding schemes instead. A user would not be able to copy or search text in any meaningful way from pages on such platforms. The current version of GlyphGate is not limited in this way. Somewhat outdated versions of both Windows and Mac OS are in particular able to show any Unicode text with the current version of GlyphGate.

GlyphGate supports languages that are supported by either Uniscribe/GSP or OpenType Layout. We have done this in an extendible way, so that you may download GSP language modules when they become available.

When GlyphGate processes a text, it is smart about matching text, languages and fonts. A list of fallback fonts is used in cases where text on a page is set in a font that does not support a language (or when a font is not specified).

This all makes for ease of use. An existing web site with text of a given code page will thus be legible in browsers on all platforms. There is no need to touch the existing pages.

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