- From: Tex Texin <tex@i18nguy.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:16:04 -0400
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, www-style@w3.org, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org
Of course not.
Thanks Chris.
tex
Chris Lilley wrote:
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> On Monday, October 20, 2003, 6:52:12 PM, Henri wrote:
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> HS> On Monday, Oct 20, 2003, at 09:02 Europe/Helsinki, Tex Texin wrote:
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> HS> Then there's the practice of transferring Latin gibberish and applying
> HS> a font that is a Latin font from the system's point of view but
> HS> contains glyphs for another script. I think CSS 2.1 should not
> HS> accommodate fontifying Latin gibberish to look like text in a minority
> HS> script in browsers that happen to support such a trick.
>
> I agree, so its handy that CSS 2 dissallows such a practice. But wat
> does that have to do with downloading fonts in general?
>
> HS> That approach
> HS> may appear to work (for some value of "work") in some cases but causes
> HS> problems with search engines and usually with browsers other than the
> HS> one the author of the page was using.
>
> I think these are well understood problems; I am certain that Tex was
> not suggesting the use of such mechanisms.
>
> --
> Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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