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Re: How does Unicode work?
I think you are reading a lot into what I wrote, and overlooked the tense: may have been used. Pushback on encoding tends to arise regarding historical characters, more from ignorance than discrimina…1 -
Re: What’s happening with FontBakery? Is Fontspector the future?
There’s a web version of Fontspector that is probably the easiest way to work with it. If you want to install it locally, you can either grab binaries from the project release page or install using c…4 -
Re: font fragility and mid-word styling
Yes, I would agree with that statement. There are places in Unicode where the encoding choice puts too heavy a burden on glyph processing to resolve correct display of text (Mongolian is, to my mind,…1 -
Re: font fragility and mid-word styling
What is affecting the layout problems you show is a glyph processing run boundary at the layout engine level—triggered by a change in font, a change in size, or a change in colour (the latter possibl…1 -
Re: W3C Incremental Font Transfer (IFT) is now a candidate recommendation
Putting accented characters in a separate patch isn’t a useful idea if the language of a website uses a lot of diacritics. Thats what I mean when I refer to site-specific factors that the foundry can…2
