[css-d] Multiple webfonts

2011-07-09 Thread Chris Blake
Hey, I am making a website that will be in two languages, English and Chinese. I am going to use my own webfonts but the font I am using for the English side doesn't have Chinese variations. I have found another font for the Chinese and was wondering if I can have more than one custom

Re: [css-d] Multiple webfonts

2011-07-09 Thread Joergen W. Lang
Am 09.07.11 09:32, schrieb Chris Blake: Hey, I am making a website that will be in two languages, English and Chinese. I am going to use my own webfonts but the font I am using for the English side doesn't have Chinese variations. I have found another font for the Chinese and was wondering

Re: [css-d] Multiple webfonts

2011-07-09 Thread Ghodmode
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Chris Blake ch...@3pointdesign.com wrote: Hey, I am making a website that will be in two languages, English and Chinese. I am going to use my own webfonts but the font I am using for the English side doesn't have Chinese variations. I have found another font

Re: [css-d] Multiple webfonts

2011-07-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2011-07-09 19:58, Joergen W. Lang wrote: font-family: 'englishfont', 'chinesefont', Arial, sans-serif; [...] This fallback does not work for *single characters* in the font. That depends on the browser. Your font-family declaration tells the browser to use chinesefont if englishfont is

Re: [css-d] Multiple webfonts

2011-07-09 Thread Ghodmode
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: 2011-07-09 19:58, Joergen W. Lang wrote:   font-family: 'englishfont', 'chinesefont', Arial, sans-serif; [...] This fallback does not work for *single characters* in the font. That depends on the browser. Nope,

Re: [css-d] Multiple webfonts

2011-07-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2011-07-09 21:19, Ghodmode wrote: font-family: 'englishfont', 'chinesefont', Arial, sans-serif; [...] This fallback does not work for *single characters* in the font. That depends on the browser. Nope, that's consistent across IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. To see that

Re: [css-d] Multiple webfonts

2011-07-09 Thread Joergen W. Lang
Am 09.07.11 19:50, schrieb Jukka K. Korpela: 2011-07-09 19:58, Joergen W. Lang wrote: font-family: 'englishfont', 'chinesefont', Arial, sans-serif; [...] This fallback does not work for *single characters* in the font. That depends on the browser. Is there a list of browsers that

Re: [css-d] Multiple webfonts

2011-07-09 Thread Ted Rolle Jr.
Newbie question: Would having the language declaration at the html level mean that there must be two HTML pages? html lang=zh-tw /html html lang=en /html -- +-+ | 3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279

Re: [css-d] Multiple webfonts

2011-07-09 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2011-07-09 22:44, Ted Rolle Jr. wrote: Would having the language declaration at the html level mean that there must be two HTML pages? html lang=zh-tw /html html lang=en /html No, you would use html lang=... to specify the overall (main) language of the page and lang attributes in other

Re: [css-d] Multiple webfonts

2011-07-09 Thread Ted Rolle Jr.
Thank you! On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: 2011-07-09 22:44, Ted Rolle Jr. wrote: Would having the language declaration at the html level mean that there must be two HTML pages? html lang=zh-tw /html html lang=en /html No, you would use html

Re: [css-d] Multiple webfonts

2011-07-09 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
On Jul 10, 2011, at 4:20 AM, Joergen W. Lang wrote: Am 09.07.11 19:50, schrieb Jukka K. Korpela: 2011-07-09 19:58, Joergen W. Lang wrote: font-family: 'englishfont', 'chinesefont', Arial, sans-serif; [...] This fallback does not work for *single characters* in the font. That depends

Re: [css-d] Multiple webfonts

2011-07-09 Thread Ghodmode
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Jukka K. Korpela jkorp...@cs.tut.fi wrote: 2011-07-09 21:19, Ghodmode wrote:    font-family: 'englishfont', 'chinesefont', Arial, sans-serif; [...] This fallback does not work for *single characters* in the font. That depends on the browser. Nope, that's