- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 20:50:05 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>
- Cc: W3C CSS List <www-style@w3.org>
On Sun, 9 May 2004, Ernest Cline wrote: > > [no way to detect IPA fonts] Not really much point adding it to CSS then. > It would probably be simpler to check the font to see if it contained > characters from the IPA Extensions block. Don't most "Unicode complete" fonts like Lucida Unicode and Arial Unicode contain glyphs in that block? > As for font-variant instead of font-family, I don't think so. > smallcaps can be simulated if there isn't a smallcap version of the > font, but as you pointed out, there is no mechanism to know for certain > if the glyphs are appropriate for the IPA and even it there were not, no > algorithm to synthesize reasonable correct glyphs. I don't understand what synthesis has to do with it? -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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