- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:56:28 +0200
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org
On Monday, October 20, 2003, 6:52:12 PM, Henri wrote: HS> On Monday, Oct 20, 2003, at 09:02 Europe/Helsinki, Tex Texin wrote: HS> Then there's the practice of transferring Latin gibberish and applying HS> a font that is a Latin font from the system's point of view but HS> contains glyphs for another script. I think CSS 2.1 should not HS> accommodate fontifying Latin gibberish to look like text in a minority HS> script in browsers that happen to support such a trick. I agree, so its handy that CSS 2 dissallows such a practice. But wat does that have to do with downloading fonts in general? HS> That approach HS> may appear to work (for some value of "work") in some cases but causes HS> problems with search engines and usually with browsers other than the HS> one the author of the page was using. I think these are well understood problems; I am certain that Tex was not suggesting the use of such mechanisms. -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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