- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:09:19 -0800
- To: Jelle Mulder <pjmulder@xs4all.nl>
- Cc: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>, Robert Longson <longsonr@gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Jelle Mulder <pjmulder@xs4all.nl> wrote: > If all these characters are incorporated in Unicode character, how is it > possible that SVG fonts do not support them? Isn't it just a question of > having a very extensive set of Glyph? And wouldn't that be something that is > addressed by the authoring software rather than a font set? I doubt that > anyone using Devangari on an iPhone has that much of a problem with it. SVG fonts can support the individual characters, but don't have the mechanisms that TTF/OTF/etc have that allow glyph shaping/kerning/hinting/etc. that are necessary for rendering some of the world's languages readably. ~TJ
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