Re: New tests for web fonts

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:

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> On Aug 25, 2008, at 5:42 AM, Richard Ishida wrote:
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>>
>> 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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>