my asian font breaks words in IE5.5!

[bearded]

Dear Sir / Madam,
Here I have a problem in my webpage display. I am using a non-English, Asian Language Font on my web page. Normally, in a wordprocessor, the font displays best. But, when I use it in HTML, browser (IE5.5) displays one extra space after some of the characters, (the coded value of those characters in the html are ¡ © ÿ § > { ¶ ) in a word. This display destroys the look of my webpage composition, it breaks words. But this problem occurs in Internet Exploree 5.5, while IE5.0 display the correct display. And also, if I use <b> </b> codes for BOLD effect, the broken words join, but I don't like the BOLD style in my page.

Can you please explain the solution. Is there any code in CSS, Javascript or any other to rectify it.

thanks,

[Charles]

Use unicode instead (http://www.unicode.org/).

[bearded]

Sorry Sir! I could not understand your reply. I am a novice in font technology. Do you want to tell me that I should use Unicode fonts? If yes, will you give some tips, how to do so with my existing fontSet? Some sites' address on so on...

My font is for Hindi (Devnagri) language.
Thanks for reply.

[Charles]

There are two ways to display non-Latin glyphs. The old way was to use a font that maps those glyphs to otherwise Latin characters and it would appear that that's what you are doing. Back then we only had characters numbered from 0 to 255 but now that we have the utf-8 encoding we can have any number of characters. Uniciode takes advantage of this and assigns every character on the earth a number. You and your users will need a font that has glyphs for the characters that you are using and you will need to specify that you are using unicode, <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="utf-8">.

[bearded]

Dear Charles,
thanks for reply. I will be grateful if you could guide me to learn more about How to make unicode font. Some tips about the software to make, what is the process, and ...

regards,
a junior member

[Charles]

I've never made a font and I think that you would do better to find out what the popular unicode fonts are that have the necessary glyphs.