ElliottBradshaw at oaktech.com wrote:
> ...
> 1. Is this a problem worth solving? (vs. vendor-specific solutions)
Yes.
> 2. Should it be treated as part of XHTML-Print, UPnP, or some other
> group? (as opposed to a separate working group)
Probably as part of an existing group.
> 3. Who is interested in participarting, as author or reviewer?
I'd be interested, at least in the reviewer/back-seat-driver role. :)
....
Some immediate thoughts based on my own experiences, and without
looking at the Bluetooth docos.
1. Aside from the Euro, all printers seem to provide the basic
Latin characters needed for English and most Western European
languages. If you do a language/country-based scheme, it should
address the presence/absence of the Euro symbol as a separate
entity. [this doesn't quite sound right to me, but in the context
of ISO Latin 1 the Euro is a major pain WRT support in printers;
do with it what you will...]
2. Providing a list of Unicode ranges may be the simplest way
of reporting what the device supports, and the client can use
this to choose embedding/exclusion/error display when the
user prints something. This needs to be a per-font resource.
3. In addition to or instead of #2, you could define a CSS
attribute that determines what the device does for characters
it does not have: exclude (blanks or squares), substitute (from
another font with the required characters), or error out.
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