Hi,

> sure, but fonts should be chosen with care .. and illegal ripoffs should be
> avoided (those cd's with hundreds of fonts, nowadays sites)

See: https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory

> (quality of design / digitization, completeness of coverage, correctness of
> features ... much can be wrong)

See also: http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/

> In that case I'd run a separate font checker, as you never know what users
> upload. Similar issues can occur with those tagged formats that are in fact
> linked lists.

That's a good idea. The TTX font tool was going to be my first stop.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fonttools/

> sure, although a crash has the nice advantage of knowing that a font 
> (collection)
> is crap (which i then can blacklist permanently in my mind)

A crash, from a practical point of view, is much easier to deal with
than a runaway CPU, which is altogether nasty. (On older systems, if
you have only one or two CPUs, it can quite quickly take down a
system.)

Warm regards.
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