PSEUDO OFF-TOPIC.
I work for a service for multicultural education. Something I notice,
is that often the traductor uses a custom font. Theres a hebrew
custom font, a urdu custom font, etc... using these fonts, you can
write in these languages using unicode-unaware word processors. The
text is not really in unicode. If you copy&paste the code from one of
these word / pdf files to a unicode aware text editor, you get
gibberish, like "xfdLnfO{ yfxf 5 ;a} dfG5] leGgleGg :jefj / k|j[lQsf
x'G5g\ t/ klg zflGt /" (thats was a real text from a nepali
document).
So, If you speak wolof, or urdu, or nepali, or continental chinois, or
hebrew... I bet you have already have these fonts installed on your
system. Like ...hum.... you already have a system, and the graphics,
for these chara/H/H.. scripts.
The feature that embedded fonts add, is visual quality (and maybe some
math symbols?). Embedded fonts is not a i18n technology for all.. but
a very few countries. Everybody else just need "Arial Unicode" font.
IF there where a system to detect If a guy have a particular Hebrew or
Urdu font. That would open the door to.. just.. use
..that..font..that...is ..already installed. The "Arial Unicode"
font, or the "DavidD" (hebrew) font, etc..
I don't think this is possible. But since most people on this mail
list have more expertise than myself, maybe someone can see what I
can't see, how to detect a installed font, and redirect to a "real"
page.
A "Feature Bonus" is that, If theres people in nepal / israel / africa
already using these fonts / systems, It would be easier for these
people to copy text from his word processor to the edit textarea of
wikipedia... Wait...wait.. wait... If you want people to write
something using font XYZ, the edit page sould use the font XYZ.. or
will not see the graphics..... uh...oh.... troubles.
note: sorry about my horrible broken english.
note2: I am a UTF8 fanboy. I hate that people use something else, no
idea why, maybe lack of support from some text processor?
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