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| From | Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Font evolution |
| Date | 2013-03-02 14:32 +0100 |
| Organization | albasani.net |
| Message-ID | <kgsv12$9bg$1@news.albasani.net> (permalink) |
| References | <d9r3j8lmi694s3j5qhma66q1dq58oh2mrd@4ax.com> |
Roedy Green schrieb: > I have Google Translate installed on my web pages. I was having a look > at what it did with downloadable fonts use. It seems to revert on a > letter by letter basis to some backup font when the exotic Vietnamese > glyph is not available in my chosen webfont. I have not yet > experimented to figure out who is pulling off this cleverness. Is it > the browser, the woff driver, google translate, CSS, the OS? Does this > work with non-web fonts? non-woff fonts? I seem to recall not that > long ago you would have seen little squares for such characters. Most likely translation doesn't need to know about fonts, and will just pick the unicode character codes for translation. Right? Bye
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Font evolution Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-02 04:17 -0800
Re: Font evolution Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2013-03-02 14:32 +0100
Re: Font evolution "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-03-03 04:57 -0500
Re: Font evolution Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2013-03-03 18:48 +0000
Re: Font evolution "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-03-03 20:46 -0500
Re: Font evolution Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2013-03-04 06:59 +0000
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