On 03/01/2011 15:57, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
There was also some discussion about metadata. Language is sometimes
necessary for the font engine to pick the right glyph.
Could you elaborate on this? My assumption was that we'd just use CSS,
which doesn't rely on language for this.
It's not in any spec that I'm aware of, but some browsers (including
Opera) pick different glyphs depending on the language of the text,
which really helps when rendering CJK when you have several CJK fonts on
the system. Browsers will already know the language from <track
srclang>, so this would be for external players.
Firefox too. If you visit
http://people.mozilla.org/~jdaggett/webfonts/serbianglyphs.html in
Firefox 4, the text explicitly marked-up as being Serbian Cyrillic
(using the lang="sr-Cyrl" attribute) uses some different glyphs to the
text with no language metadata.
Alex
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