- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:05:00 +0100
- To: www-font@w3.org
Hello www-font, I just submitted this bug report on the TTX font conversion software: ================ TTX does not pad the final table to a multiple of four bytes. This would cause the Google font checker to reject the font; except it currently has a work-around specifically because of TTX-generated Takao font, which is the default Japanese font on new Ubuntu distributions. In turn, this work-around causes all browsers that use the Google font sanitiser to fail directory-4-byte-002 in the WOFF test suite. It would be great therefore to a) fix this in TTX b) for the Ubuntu folks to remake Takao font with the fixed TTX c) for Google to remove their workaround d) for WOFF to meet its Candidate Recommendation exit criteria and become a W3C Recommendation. Links: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=47960 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=109813 http://w3c-test.org/framework/results/woff-ua/ ============== https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3509413&group_id=29196&atid=1613956 I see that Just van Rossum is one of the developers. My hope is that TTX can be fixed, which allows Ubuntu to update their default Japanese webfont, which allows Google to no longer have to hack around it, which means that implementatiosn which use the google font sanitiser can pass directory-4-byte-002. Implementations which don't use Google font sanitiser (I'm looking at you, IE9 and IE10) it would be great to see some passes in this area as well. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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