- From: Russ Rolfe <rrolfe@windows.microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 11:51:18 -0700
- To: <ishida@w3.org>, <www-international@w3.org>
Richard, What version of the platforms are you looking for XP/2000/ME? Also here is a reference to what the default Font is for localized versions of Windows XP/2000. http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/drintl/columns/017/default.mspx#Q2 Regards, Russ (rrolfe) One of the World-Ready Guides (wrg) Are you World-Ready? http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev -----Original Message----- From: Richard Ishida [mailto:ishida@w3.org] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 11:13 AM 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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