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Thanks Mike, Just to clarify a point you made: >Again in theory, the OS or an >application can peek into the font files and know the character coverage for >each font, so when the preferred font doesn't have a certain character, an >alternate font from the same family can be used for just that one character. >IE 5.0 and above for Windows does provide for this to some extent. Is this the case? If I specify { font-family:Arial, Arial Unicode MS } IE doesn't display the glyphs, suggesting that it isn't looking into Arial Unicode MS for the missing font. If I specify a font that my system doesn't have, then of course the 'reserve' is used (so the font chosen for the output is like an exclusive-or). This isn't such a big deal, as I can just use Arial Unicode MS throughout with Arial in reserve, and instruct the end users to get hold of the unicode font should they come across a missing glyph) [apologies to everyone for the off-topic post, this is just to wrap this up for the archive] cheers andrew -----Original Message----- From: Mike Brown [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxx] Sent: 05 July 2002 19:47 To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: more encoding woe Andrew Welch wrote: > 1. Is there a standard font for unicode and where can I get it? (what > do you use?) If you have MS Office, you can pop in the CD and go to the installer, do a custom install and choose to add what I think it calls the 'international font' or some such.. this will install Arial Unicode MS. Alternatively, you can get it from http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/aruniupd.aspx I think there's a license issue with this, so you can't redistribute it, and you are expected to own MS Publisher 2000 (though it's not actually required to use the font). In theory, you shouldn't need a font that covers all of Unicode, if you have the coverage you need in different fonts. Generally a font is tuned for a particular writing system ('script') like Latin, Arabic, etc., and only has coverage for that script plus a little extra. Again in theory, the OS or an application can peek into the font files and know the character coverage for each font, so when the preferred font doesn't have a certain character, an alternate font from the same family can be used for just that one character. IE 5.0 and above for Windows does provide for this to some extent. The info at http://www.unicode.org/help/display_problems.html may also be of interest to you. - Mike ________________________________________________________________________ ____ mike j. brown | xml/xslt: http://skew.org/xml/ denver/boulder, colorado, usa | resume: http://skew.org/~mike/resume/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.373 / Virus Database: 208 - Release Date: 01/07/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.373 / Virus Database: 208 - Release Date: 01/07/2002 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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