- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:14:25 -0700
- To: timeless <timeless@gmail.com>
- Cc: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, Yuzo Fujishima <yuzo@google.com>, www-style@w3.org, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 3:43 PM, timeless <timeless@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:06 AM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote: >> This starts to push into the realm of saving users from themselves. In >> general, I don't think we should burden implementations with complex >> error handling requirements like this unless it's really a common >> occurrence that's hard for the author to work around. > > Do you mean something like the Font Problems that Fedora has: > http://ianweller.org/2010/07/12/another-double-post-fedoras-fonts-and-more-datanommer/ > > It seems they're shopping for a replacement, but I'm more interested in today. I don't think that's what's being talked about here. It appears that Fedora's problem is simply that their font doesn't have accented characters at all. fantasai and jdaggett are talking about a specific problem where a composed glyph crosses element boundaries. ~TJ
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