Re: [minutes] Internationalization telecon 2023-11-09

Noticing the discussion about generic font families:

On 2023-11-09 22:04, Fuqiao Xue wrote:
> martin: what about Fangsong and Kai in Latin?
>
> r12a: I don't really know the answer 

This is "What does fangsong map to for non chinese text" csswg issue #4425
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4425

The CSS Fonts 4 specification now clearly distinguishes universal 
generics, may-match generics and script-specific (may match) generics.
   https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#generic-family-value

<https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#generic-family-value>> There are 
three types of generic family:

 > 1. Generics which apply to all Unicode characters and will /always/ 
match a locally installed font. For example, monospaced.

 > 2. Generics which apply to all Unicode characters but may not match 
to a locally installed font on some systems. For example, ui-rounded 
<https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#valdef-font-family-ui-rounded>.

 > 3. Generics which are writing-system specific, only apply to a subset 
of Unicode characters, and may not match to a locally installed font on 
some systems. For example, generic(fangsong) 
<https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#valdef-font-family-generic-fangsong>. 



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