[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 20542] Adding EOT Font Rendering capability

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20542





------- Comment #24 from contact at nickshanks.com  2008-10-17 17:07 PDT -------
(In reply to comment #21)

> Ick. No ISCII, please.

There is nothing wrong in storing and serving the files in the various ISCII
representations, just as there is nothing wrong in me serving GB 18030,
ISO-8859-2, Windows 1256 or MacHebrew—because the browsers know how to
convert them to their internal representation (which may not be Unicode anyway,
especially low memory mobile devices in places like China and Japan).

> copy'n'paste, find-in-a-page, and history would not work

These features do not require Unicode, only that the encoding used is both
specified by the server and understood by the client. In the case of WebKit,
ICU is used to transcode from the served encoding to an internal representation
(which happens to be Unicode).

If it is easier to talk sites into using ISCII than it is to get them to use
Unicode, then that's great, lets do that. Anything to get them weened off
font-specific encodings, and on to standardised ones.


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