On 10/28/2013 07:43 AM, Liangent wrote:
btw. Be aware of internationalization issues: not to say that fonts are usually tied to a (group of) alphabets. Even digits can be affected by the language info of the context they live.
See [1]: this is the standard English Wikipedia signup screen, and [2]: with ?uselang=zh-cn added.
[1] http://imagebin.org/275031 [2] http://imagebin.org/275032
Just for the record, neither of those are Georgia. They have both been substituted/fallbacked. Georgia has very recognizable numbers since they shift on the baseline. See the right column of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Account-Creation-Mockup-ByTheNumbers.png
It is indeed interesting that the system uses different fonts based on the language, even for the numerals. The Chinese one isn't even a serif, although 'serif' is the last in the stack.
Matt Flaschen