From: Alan Wood (alan.wood@context.co.uk)
Date: Mon Dec 22 2003 - 08:16:31 EST
Lill Therese wrote:
We are developing a website that will include (at least) the following
languages:
Russian, persian, somali, kurdish, norwegian, arabic, urdu and english.
I'm looking for a (windows-)font that supports all these languages (with all
the necessary characters).
I understand that there are no single standard windows font that supports
all the characters we need. But does anyone have a list of which font is
prefered for each language? I've been told that Tahoma is the prefered font
for urdu and persian. I can use Tahoma or Arial for english, norwegian and
russian. But what about somali and arabic?
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It is not normally a good idea to specify named fonts in your HTML or CSS.
People who want to read the version of your site in a particular language
will already have a suitable font installed, and will have their browser
configured to use it. They will not appreciate you trying to force them to
view your site in a different font.
If you specify a font by name, there is no guarantee that everyone will have
the same version installed. For example, old Windows versions of Arial, and
all Mac versions of Arial, do not contain Cyrillic characters.
-- Alan Wood http://www.alanwood.net (Unicode, special characters, pesticide names)
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