Re: Web font test cases: file linking vs. data URI embedding, CSS font stack subsets from Ben Weiner on 2009-10-13 (www-font@w3.org from October to December 2009)

From: Ben Weiner <ben@readingtype.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:02:03 +0100
To: www-font <www-font@w3.org>
CC: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
Message-ID: <4AD425EB.8000106@readingtype.org.uk>

Hi,

John Daggett wrote:
> I'm sure you're aware of this but I want to point out that breaking up fonts into separate subsets like this will break kerning and ligatures for pairs of glyphs that exist in different subsets.  Although IE does not, Firefox currently supports kerning and Webkit will hopefully in the near future. 
Would joined/substituted glyphs fail in a similar way if, say, an Arabic 
font was split up into subsets? Our discussion is very Latin-centric ;-)

Cheers,
Ben

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