> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:54:53 -0800 > From: David Starner <prosfil...@gmail.com> > Cc: unicode@unicode.org > > >> I'm running Iceweasel 8, and it displays the tabs as Latin. I would > >> consider it a bug to do otherwise; the font on those tabs should be > >> under my control. > > > > It _is_ under your control. But what do you expect to happen if you > > select a font that doesn't cover the characters on the page, or force > > the browser to use an encoding different from what the page author > > intended? Selecting a font that cannot handle the tricks played by > > that page is no different. > > It is different. If the title of a page is proper Singhala, I can > choose a font for the tabs that supports Singhala and Latin, and > display all the tabs correctly. (It'll take more intelligence if I > want to have Cherokee and Cyrillic and Singhala all as labels of tabs, > but the problem is a known one with solutions; different fonts can be > used for different scripts.) If the title of page is in Latin script > displayed as Singhala by a font, I can't display Latin and Singhala > titles in tabs without accepting the font of the page or manually > changing fonts.
It is not different. It boils down to the same thing: you must use fonts that do the job.