Michael Adams wrote:
> Would it help to create a page with all the Unicode chars in the range you are > using and ask who can see how many based on font selections on a per > paragraph basis. For *my* Linux "Nimbus Roman No9 L" may be a well populated > serif font and "Nimbus Sans L" as sans serif (dunno i haven't gone into it > that much). You could also get replies from Mac, Windows 7, Vista and XP > users and try for the best combinations. I don't know the maximum fonts you > can have in a CSS fonts list - anyone? Thank you for the suggestion, Michael; it is certainly worth listing the more common "well populated" fonts as you suggest, but it doesn't address the real issue, which /seems/ to be (in the absence of any evidence to the contrary) that the CSS fallback mechanism was formulated at a time when Unicode was not yet prevalent, and does not seem to have evolved to cope with the need to have greater control over the fallback font selected in order to deal with the various character sets that the page uses. > Alternatively, if you are dealing with particularly uncommon glyphs it could > pay to use images of the ones you want instead. I would prefer not to go that route at all ! ** Phil. ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
