Re: Detecting installed fonts in a browser window [was Re...

From: Bob Hallissy (bob_hallissy@sil.org)
Date: Wed Jul 12 2000 - 04:19:47 EDT


       Subject:
       Re: Detecting installed fonts in a browser window [was Re:
       Tradi
       ---------------------------------

       
       
>Due to a bug in Arabic-enabled fonts distributed with IE 5,
       Tahoma, Arabic Traditional, Courier New, etc., the medial form
       of
       U+06CC (ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH) gets rendered exactly like the
       isolated form.

       Some comments:

       Looks to me like the initial form of U+06CC is also wrong. You
       didn't mention that, but I hope your "font fixer" tool will
       correct it also.

       Even Times New Roman and Arial Unicode have this flaw.

> The bug is only a forgotten field in the GPOS table of the
       fonts

       Isn't it actually in the GSUB table? I don't think these fonts
       have GPOS information....

       Bob Hallissy



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