> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dejan Kozina
> Sent: 21 February 2005 04:49
> One thing I've just thought of. The final hurdle in letting the world
> see vietnamese text is hoping that the visitor's browser has a font
> capable of displaying the text. There is not much you can do if it
> doesn't, but if it has one you should allow the browser to choose it
> avoiding to declare a font-family for that part of the page.
Most likely, people who want to read (not look at) Vietnamese text will have
fonts that support the characters.
Note also that you can specify your prefered font in the CSS, but the
font-family property allows you to specify more than one font for fallback
support. For example, if you research the user base and discover that there are
two or three Unicode fonts in common use, you can include them all. In any
case you should always finish a font-family declaration with 'serif' or
'sans-serif' in this situation. Then if none of the fonts you indicated are on
the user's system, a font that they do have will be used.
eg. body { font-family: "My preferred viet font", "An alternative font",
sans-serif; ... }
hth
RI
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