Re: Font Technology Standards

From: Mete Kural (metek@touchtonecorp.com)
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 08:56:37 EST

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>Frank Yung-Fong Tang va escriure:
>> For example, we can standarlized a set of Arabic glyphs with their
>> encoding.
>
>Think about Nastaliq (rather than Naskh). There is simply no way to have it
>done. Too much possibilities.

Yes I think it would be impractical to standardize a set of Arabic glyphs but can't the font format be standardized so that fonts are portable to any platform. What does W3C's WebFonts specification do in this direction?

-Mete

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