[OpenFontLibrary] Google Font Directory

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Wed Jun 23 20:05:07 PDT 2010


On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 07:57:23PM -0500, Barry Schwartz wrote:
> Jonadab the Unsightly One <jonadab at bright.net> skribis:
> > And let me expand on that a little more:  since the Google Font
> > Directory fonts are not just ASCII but Latin-1 (plus Euro and maybe a
> > couple of other things), they're good for almost all websites written
> > in not just English but virtually any European language, and a good
> > number of non-European languages as well.
> 
> Latin-1 won't get you very far outside of Western Europe. I myself
> can't get by with it, because I need ĉ ĝ ĥ ĵ ŝ and ŭ for
> Esperanto. I'm not a vast majority of anything, however. :)

Just a question, don't CSS have a font fallback mechanism so that one
can set, say, Droid Sans followed by Droid Sans Cyrillic or Droid Sans
CJK if he wants Cyrillic or CJK support?


-- 
 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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