- From: Brad Kemper <brkemper.comcast@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:24:59 -0700
- To: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Cc: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On my iphone, the Khmer scripts only showed up as a bunch of rectangles. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 25, 2008, at 11:10 AM, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote: > > On Aug 25, 2008, at 5:42 AM, Richard Ishida wrote: > >> >> Safari 3.1.2: Armenian, perfect; all others yield blank space >> (although the reference text is rendered correctly for Hindi, >> Arabic and Urdu in the default browser font). >> > > This problem is unique to Safari on Windows. Safari on Mac can > handle complex scripts just fine. > > Uniscribe requires an HFONT that represents the downloadable font in > order to render, but we could find no Windows API that would allow > us to privately install a downloadable font and obtain an HFONT from > it. Windows has APIs for doing this for .EOT, but not for Truetype/ > Opentype. > > It's not clear to me how any browser is going to support Truetype/ > Opentype downloadable fonts on Windows, but maybe the Mozilla guys > have found a technical solution. > > dave > (hyatt@apple.com) > >
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