Re: [RC6] white-space-processing-056: false positives

On Saturday 2012-08-11 19:49 -0400, "Gérard Talbot" wrote:
> Le Sam 11 août 2012 18:19, L. David Baron a écrit :
> > I don't think the Ahem font provides a glyph for ideographic space,
> 
> I never considered such possibility; I would not know.
> 
> > so it seems that you'd get a glyph from a different font -- and I
> > could imagine the results being substantially different depending on
> > which font, and whether that font has an ideographic space that's
> > exactly 1em wide.
> 
> Well, then I can not explain some browser passing and failing while
> declaring the same browser default font.

If the default font you defined also doesn't have an ideographic
space (which is likely), then it depends on how the browser searches
the rest of the fonts on the system, which is
implementation-defined.

-David

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Received on Sunday, 12 August 2012 01:10:20 UTC