On 13/07/2010, at 6:38 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > > > Michael Adams wrote: > >> Would it help to create a page with all the Unicode chars in the >> range you are >> using and ask who can see how many based on font selections on a per >> paragraph basis. For *my* Linux "Nimbus Roman No9 L" may be a well >> populated >> serif font and "Nimbus Sans L" as sans serif (dunno i haven't gone >> into it >> that much). You could also get replies from Mac, Windows 7, Vista >> and XP >> users and try for the best combinations. I don't know the maximum >> fonts you >> can have in a CSS fonts list - anyone? > > Thank you for the suggestion, Michael; it is certainly worth > listing the more common "well populated" fonts as you suggest, > but it doesn't address the real issue, which /seems/ to > be (in the absence of any evidence to the contrary) that the > CSS fallback mechanism was formulated at a time when Unicode > was not yet prevalent, and does not seem to have evolved to > cope with the need to have greater control over the fallback > font selected in order to deal with the various character > sets that the page uses.
it could be seen as racist! > >> Alternatively, if you are dealing with particularly uncommon glyphs >> it could >> pay to use images of the ones you want instead. > > I would prefer not to go that route at all ! haha, how many characters in that language? > > ** Phil. > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
