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