Re: Non-Latin Font name behavior in IE

Hi,

> Windows 2000 and later processes the Asian (non-Latin) native font names
> the same way as the Latin font name. It is just a function of the OS and
> not a function of IE. Of course this means that it does not work on
> Win9x.

  Did you actually test that on Win 9x/ME? I also thought it wouldn't work
on Win 9x/ME, but it might just work because some 'W' APIs on Win 9x/ME
are 'natively' supported (although font-enum APIs are not likely to be
among those).  See <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231426>
for a mozilla bug on the issue.

  BTW, it'd better to say 'non-ASCII' (instead of non-Latin) because
the only ASCII part is common in all Windows code pages.

 Anyway, it's not a good idea to list only native font names in CSS
because some OS'/browsers  cannot recognize native font names. They
always have to be followed by the corresponding ASCII-only names.

 Jungshik

Received on Friday, 19 March 2004 00:17:55 UTC