On Jan 15, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Bob Rosenberg wrote: > I am not sure what the rules are when the first selected font does not > contain the character but a subsequent one does (ie: Will it search the > subsequent fonts for the character or just give up since it has found a prior > font that is usable).
The rule are fairly simple: check if the character exists in the first listed font, if not, skip to the next one, etc. If no fonts in the list contain the requested character, check for 'a' font-family available on the user system (and that is one reason to always specify a generic font-family). Note that I've seen IE 6 and 7 sometimes not play by those rules on XP. > ... > > For Windows and Macintosh listing Arial Unicode MS, ITC Zapf Dingbats, and > Zapf Dingbats should insure that you will always find at least one available > font on the user's system. I am not sure what font to use for Linux but I > think that a Zapf Dingbats font exists there and will be installed. Arial Unicode MS is good suggestion (not always available on win XP, iirc; and not installed on OS X 10.4). Adding DejaVu Sans (or DejaVu Serif) will insure wide coverage, including Linux (the font is installed by default on most Linux distros). Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@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/
