- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:58:52 +0300
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Monday, Oct 20, 2003, at 20:12 Europe/Helsinki, Tex Texin wrote: > If a browser supports Unicode, then all that may be needed to display > the > script is the font. > > There seems to be an assumption that displaying minority scripts must > require a > concerted effort and a specialized system. > It doesn't need to be the case. Certainly some scripts are complex to > display. > Others are in the minority not because they are technologically > difficult but > because there are not many speakers. For example, Mac OS X doesn't come bundled with a font for Georgian, but will render Georgian text (encoded as Unicode) if a font is supplied. If a person wants to read Georgian and runs Mac OS X, why wouldn't (s)he install a suitable font instead of relying on Web sites to provide fonts via @font-face? Surely it is reasonable to expect (s)he wants to read Georgian even when the site author isn't providing a font or when the text being read isn't a Web page. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://www.iki.fi/hsivonen/
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