On 05/29/2009 10:57 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
Of course, there are also i18n reasons to supply a font -- if you're writing in a script that has poor support on major platforms, you no longer have to decide between text-in-images or telling people to install a font.
This made me smile. It was just ten years ago when I was writing PHP code to generate images from text because Netscape didn't support Arabic / Persian. Then I figured that the bidi handling is more complex than I had thought. UAX#9, FriBidi, ... the rest is history as they say. :)
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