2013/1/9 Jukka K. Korpela <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi>: > And, to be fair, Unicode-encoded fonts that contain Sinhala letters tend to > be considerably larger than 8-bit ad-hoc encoded fonts. Then again, these > days, size does not matter that much, and a downloadable font gets cached,
Size does matter when you're using mobile Internet access, because data plans are now frequently limited in volume, and cost a lot when you're roaming abroad with your smartphone (even within Europe where those roaming access fees have been slightly limited) and don't have access to a local suitable free Wifi hotspot! Anyway, if size matters, no website should ever depend on downloadable fonts to be displayable. I cannot use and display the romanized Sinhala site on my smartphone, I just get garbage. But true Unicoded Sinhala pages work very well, without additional cost.
