default font list for f17

Qianqian Fang fangqq at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 20:59:29 UTC 2012


On 03/09/2012 02:04 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> No the issue is that you're putting the font stack in a situation 
> where it's guessing and can't produce reliable results. 

There is nothing wrong with guessing. In fact, for a mature
OS designed for the mass, fault-tolerance and legitimate
guess/default values are almost required. A robust system
should also function reasonably even under unexpected
situations (and I believe it is fair to inspect the font
rendering pipelines under these more stringent requirements
given the profound impact).

All I was trying to say was that the current guess is a bad one.
If it can be improved, it can save many people's time and
frustration. Tell what's the downside for correcting this?

> Have your Chinese pages properly declare they are in Chinese as the 
> w3c recommends for i18n sites and you won't have any problems. 

There is going to be no criminals if we are all law-abiding
citizens, but unfortunately, that's not our world.


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