On 1 Jun 2005, at 11:03 pm, akella wrote:
ive got problems with ukrainian(there are like russian but with 3-4 national letters) letters on MAC. [...] All font-familys(2 of them) looks like this: font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-family:Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; If u r interested css is here http://akella.org.ua/pravda/base.css and live example here http://akella.org.ua/pravda/
1/ it wouldn't be a bad idea to use UTF-8, I'm not sure if all characters are displayed correctly.
2/ you specify a number of fonts in your style sheet; none of those contain the glyphs those Cyrillic characters. All browsers on OS X substitute your font-choice with glyphs from another font-family. But some characters used (line 'i', '?') are included in your specified font-family, and are displayed according to your choice (noticeable in both Firefox , Safari/Omniweb and Opera).
3/ one additional problem in Safari and Opera: the font-family the browser end up using does not contain *bold* glyphs. The browser doesn't display the text as bold. Firefox attempts to emulate the bolding on the fly (and the result is - to my eyes - acceptable for the latest nightly build, but on Firefox 1.04 it is not so great). But for those characters that are present in your selected font-family, there is a bold glyph, hence the difference in display in Safari and Opera.
Solution: don't specify any font-family, only a generic one (like sans-serif). Or you could add a font-family that does contain Cyrillic characters, like 'HelveticaCY'
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