Re: Japanese font on Non-Japanese Android phones

It wasn't really a confession... that makes it sound like a crime.

I did write a bit quickly at that time, though. In more detail, language
tags are signals for the detection; they can be taken into account to a
greater or lesser degree, depending on the strength of other signals (like
the contents of the text, domain, etc.).

Mark
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On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 07:37, Andreas Prilop <prilop4321_at_trashmail.net>wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Gerrit wrote:
>
> > So if somebody from Google reads this,
> > [...]
> > Additionally, if the standard Android web browser could then
> > use the html “lang” tag to select the appropriate font,
> > it would be even nicer.
>
> Mark Davis from Google has confessed on this list
> http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m01/0273.html
> that Google deliberately ignores both the LANG attribute of HTML
> and the CHARSET parameter of MIME.
>
> --
> The schoolboys from Google failed again:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/fr.test/browse_thread/thread/8ad6f1e8fbfefaec
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Received on Sat Oct 08 2011 - 16:31:29 CDT