[webkit-dev] EOT Support in WebKit

[Nicholas Shanks]

On 18 Oct 2008, at 3:33 am, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> Some of the proposals there sound really interesting.
>
> 1) Detect when known unusually-encoded EOT fonts are used, and  
> convert text in that font on-the-fly to Unicode. This has the  
> advantage that features like "find in page" and copy/paste will work  
> correctly; apparently they normally do not when the font is encoded  
> in a way that doesn't match the server-stated text encoding.

No "apparently" necessary, you can see for yourself.
Some Kannada sites I know of:

http://prajavani.net/
http://udayavani.com/
http://kannadaprabha.com/

(these sites usually have font download pages such as http://www.kannadaprabha.com/Fonts/Help.asp 
  with the ASCII-encoded font they use, which you have to download and  
install to get the site to look right)

Many of these sites don't send an encoding in the Content-Type header,  
so will probably appear as high‐byte Latin-1 or invalid UTF−8  
diamonds, depending on the user's default encoding. Needless to say  
neither will work with find‐in‐page or copy & paste.

— Nicholas Shanks.

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