Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.yu wrote:
Even more helpful: MediaWiki could determine if a page uses a rare character upon save and link to appropriate fonts.
The problem with this is that it means the characters may be displayed in a different font even if the default font actually contains them, which is needlessly ugly. We can't say "Use this font, but only if the font that would otherwise be used doesn't contain character X".
Or can we? I will experiment a bit, but I guess something like this would work:
@font-face { font-family: glagolitic; src: url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/fonts/glagolitic.ttf"); }
body { font-family: sans-serif, glagolitic }
If default sans-serif font doesn't have Glagolitic characters, Firefox will use any available font that has them, that should include glagolitic.ttf .