- From: Kevin Hsieh via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 18:46:51 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
@svgeesus As mentioned by @faceless2, the intention is to skip loading the font if it doesn't apply. In @AmeliaBR's example with Noto fonts, subsetted, single-language fonts are already offered for use on the web because the full multi-language fonts are large. This somewhat accounts for the use of the BCP 47 language tags rather than OpenType language tags: the `lang` descriptor would be matched with HTML language tag(s) and not font file language tag(s). @patrickdark I think it's okay if a font contains characters from multiple languages. The author need only specify `lang` in `@font-face` for languages that should be rendered in specific fonts, and then there can be fallback behavior for other languages. It seems to me that using an `exclude-lang` descriptor could get unwieldy. For example, a site about the use of Classical Chinese might use various combinations of the `zh-Hans`, `zh-Hant`, `ja-JP`, `ko-KR`, and `vi-VN` language tags on its pages. -- GitHub Notification of comment by kahsieh Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1744#issuecomment-363869690 using your GitHub account
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