Posted by Animesh K on 09/19/07 21:53

Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Scripsit Animesh K:
>
>> FF on windows is a clever browser by your definition. Same is true for
>> Opera.
>
> No, my "definition" said: "A clever browser could construct a
> representation, by decomposing a character into a base character and a
> combining diacritic mark." I don't think any browser does that. It would
> mean that when a browser sees, say, n with dot above as a single
> precomposed character and finds out that it hasn't got a glyph for it,
> it decomposes it into plain n (which it has got) and combining dot above
> (which it might have).
>
> What FF and Opera do is that they pick up the precomposed character from
> another font. Just what IE 7 does in this case, but probably using a
> different replacement font. (Sorry, I'm too tired to check now.)

You are correct. FF and Opera are substituting the font by some other
font with no noticeable aberration. Thanks for the discussion.

>
>> May be I should switch to Arial.
>
> Hardly. Arial is much more limited than Arial Unicode MS.
>

Ok I should switch to Arial Unicode MS :)

>> To me, Tahoma is a nice read and it
>> resembles the sans-serif font of Latex closest.
>
> I have almost learned to hate Tahoma. Especially in 12 pt size, it looks
> far too dense, and in larger sizes it is, well, too large for most
> purposes (excluding headings).
>

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