Lill Therese wrote: We are developing a website that will include (at least) the following languages: Russian, persian, somali, kurdish, norwegian, arabic, urdu and english. I'm looking for a (windows-)font that supports all these languages (with all the necessary characters). I understand that there are no single standard windows font that supports all the characters we need. But does anyone have a list of which font is prefered for each language? I've been told that Tahoma is the prefered font for urdu and persian. I can use Tahoma or Arial for english, norwegian and russian. But what about somali and arabic? ------------------ It is not normally a good idea to specify named fonts in your HTML or CSS.
People who want to read the version of your site in a particular language will already have a suitable font installed, and will have their browser configured to use it. They will not appreciate you trying to force them to view your site in a different font. If you specify a font by name, there is no guarantee that everyone will have the same version installed. For example, old Windows versions of Arial, and all Mac versions of Arial, do not contain Cyrillic characters. -- Alan Wood http://www.alanwood.net (Unicode, special characters, pesticide names)
