- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:16:10 -0800 (PST)
- To: Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>, public-i18n-cjk@w3.org, www-international@w3.org, Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
Asmus Freytag wrote: > If the user has fonts that can show the variation, I would tend > to agree with Koji that it is a very unfriendly design if the > user must always be aware of the presence of variation > sequences in the text when deciding on the font selection. Such > a design also performs poorly where authorship of the text and > authorship of the style sheet are unrelated and / or are > performed at different times. CSS font matching does *not* require a system font fallback procedure that searches all fonts for a given character. Most user agents support some form of default font mechanism which allows a user to specify the font to use in the case of system font fallback for a given language or character range. By specifying fonts with full IVS support, users can achieve the results you're looking for. It's a good issue to bring to the attention of various browser vendors but it's not a CSS issue per se. Regards, John Daggett
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