RE: Pb with Unicode Tifinagh with Internet Explorer

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed May 27 2009 - 19:07:11 CDT

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    By "embedded fonts" I'm sure he meant EOTs and not PDFs. Of course, that can ensure display of default glyphs for characters, but not necessarily correct complex shaping.

    Peter

    -----Original Message-----
    From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Roozbeh Pournader
    Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:14 PM
    To: Sergey Malkin
    Cc: Unicode Mailing List
    Subject: RE: Pb with Unicode Tifinagh with Internet Explorer

    On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 18:26 +0000, Sergey Malkin wrote:
    > And if you want to be really sure text in particular language is
    > displayed on any machine, use embedded fonts.

    That is a surprising recommendation. "on any machine"?! How many
    browsers/platforms do you think support embedded fonts in same format
    and with the same level of support for the "complex" rendering rules?
    (Unless you mean PDF with embedded fonts...)

    Roozbeh



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