[Web4lib] RSS and diacritics

[Andrew Cunningham]

Thomas Dowling wrote:
> Jonathan Gorman wrote:
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> 
> CSS2 requires that browsers work their way down the list of specified 
> fonts to find the right glyph, not just find a matching font name.  
> IIRC, Gecko-based browsers and Opera go beyond that to find any system 
> font with the right glyph.
> 


not that simple. When using combining diacritics you need to treat Latin 
script as a complex script.

choping and changing fonts is more likely to break complex rendering.

And such an approach assumes that each codepoint is represented by a 
single glyph. The reality in some OpenType fonts is that each codepoint 
may have multiple glyphs, one of which is a default.

And all this is irrelevant. If the web developer wrote the page 
properly, then appropriate fonts would be referenced and if necessary 
help or support files would point to none core fonts required.

The ransom note effect in gecko browsers shouldn't be necessary.


just my two cents worth, although that's no longer legal tender here ;)


As far as i'm concerned we're talking about poor web 
internationalization and poor web design practice. The weak point has 
been and remains at the vendors/servers end, not the web clients end.


Andrew

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