- From: Alex Bishop <alexbishop@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:13:10 +0000
On 03/01/2011 15:57, Philip J?genstedt wrote: >>> There was also some discussion about metadata. Language is sometimes >>> necessary for the font engine to pick the right glyph. >> >> Could you elaborate on this? My assumption was that we'd just use CSS, >> which doesn't rely on language for this. > > It's not in any spec that I'm aware of, but some browsers (including > Opera) pick different glyphs depending on the language of the text, > which really helps when rendering CJK when you have several CJK fonts on > the system. Browsers will already know the language from <track > srclang>, so this would be for external players. Firefox too. If you visit http://people.mozilla.org/~jdaggett/webfonts/serbianglyphs.html in Firefox 4, the text explicitly marked-up as being Serbian Cyrillic (using the lang="sr-Cyrl" attribute) uses some different glyphs to the text with no language metadata. Alex -- Alex Bishop alexbishop at gmail.com
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