- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 19:13:23 +0100
- To: <www-international@w3.org>
[1] Does anyone know of a list of Unicode fonts that support specific scripts **and that one might expect users reading those scripts to have on their systems**? This would need to be by platform, eg. Windows, Linux, Unix, etc. The application for this is to get some ideas on how best to define font-family settings in CSS for a particular script so that you maximise the likelihood of people seeing the text in the script you choose, rather than defaulting to arial, helvetica, sans-serif or some such. (I assume there'll usually be some guesswork involved - although on the other hand, there are probably some fairly safe bets too, eg. Mangal is likely to be a safe bet for Devanagari for most Windows XP users.) [2] Wrt generic fallbacks, one possibility on Windows would be Arial Unicode MS, although not everyone will have that font. Are there other such generic fallbacks on other plaforms? RI ============ Richard Ishida W3C tel: +44 1753 480 292 http://www.w3.org/International/ http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/
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