Hoi,
Would this also be a solution for the problem we have with supporting
languages like Lingala ? The standard Latin fonts do not suffice.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/5/5 Brion Vibber <[email protected]>
> Firefox 3.5 will be launching this summer (betas available now!) and
> will include support for downloading and using regular TrueType and
> OpenType fonts referenced from a style sheet:
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/@font-face
>
> This is also supported in Safari 3.1 and later, and apparently by the
> latest Opera betas as well.
>
> It might be helpful for some language wikis to link in a free font this
> way, when standard fonts supporting their script are often unavailable.
> Right now on such sites there tends to be a little English link at the
> top such as 'font help' leading to a page like this telling you how to
> download and install a font:
> http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project:Font_help
>
>
> Internet Explorer afaik still only supports converted embedded (EOT)
> font files, which would require that we can either get our hands on an
> existing .eot version of each free font, or be able to generate one
> ourselves.
>
> Note there's an old feature request with an .eot copy of a Tamil font:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2361
>
> but we never had authorship info on the font or cross-browser support,
> since .eot is only supported by IE.
>
> -- brion
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