https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37984
Georg Duffner <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #33 from Georg Duffner <[email protected]> 2013-02-27 03:02:28 PST --- (In reply to comment #28) > IMHO heuristics are doomed to fail badly sooner or later. The simple path is > wishful thinking > > Complex font features are not limited to specific locales such as Serbian, > Serbian is just a locale that needs it more than others. Complex features > adoption start there and then spreads elsewhere (some people thought unicode > was not necessary for western european locale support, and then German > speakers standardized upercase ss, oops) > > It's much safer to always use the complex codepath, instead of betting on > some locales never using tech that is available anyway due to other locale > needs. Now that the tools to create complex fonts are there, someone will > find a way to use them even for the 'simplest' locales. FWIW I’ve put together a test page for the locl features in EB Garamond. They are all “simple” locales (serbian, catalan, german and turkish). http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/tests/locltest.html -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.webkit.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ fonts-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts-bugs http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
