Hi, What about using CSS3 web fonts http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator ? Upload the font you want, it will generate all the different types, link to them using the @fontface thing and bingo - they don't need that font on their system.
or am I dreadfully mistaken? BR, CB On 13/07/2010, at 4:57 PM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > If I have a page such as the following : > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd > "> > <html> > <head> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> > <title>Armenian test</title> > <style type="text/css"> > BODY {font-family : "Arial Unicode MS", sans-serif} > </style> > </head> > > <body> > <h1>Եւ երկիր էր աներևոյթ և անպատրաստ. և > խաւար ի վերայ անդնդոց. և > Հոգի Աստուծոյ շրջէր ի վերայ ջուրց</h1> > </body> > </html> > > I have presumably chosen my primary font not only because I feel its > aesthetics are appropriate but also because it supports the necessary > subset of Unicode to correctly display the characters that make up > the page. But if for some reason the visitor's browser does not have > access to (in this case) Arial Unicode MS, and falls back to the > generic "sans-serif", there is (as far as I can see) no way of > guaranteeing that the page will still display correctly. > > Is there, therefore, in CSS, some way of specifying as a part of the > font fallback sequence that any font selected as a result of fallback > must support a specific subset of Unicode such that the page can be > guaranteed to display correctly provided that such a font does in > fact exist on the visitor's machine ? And is there any way, > presumably > using a combination of HTML and CSS, to display a suitable error > message > using solely ASCII characters if such a font cannot be found ? > > Philip Taylor > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
