Re: Fonts across platforms....

From: Jukka K. Korpela (jkorpela@cs.tut.fi)
Date: Thu Jun 04 2009 - 12:51:10 CDT

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Andreas Prilop wrote:

> Verdana (at least the version of Windows XP) does not include
> Vietnamese glyphs.

As far as I can see, Windows Vista has a version of Verdana (version 5) that
contains Vietnamese characters as precomposed. But lack of support on XP
sounds bad.

See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdana#Combining_characters_bug
which claims that older versions of Verdana have serious problems with
combining diacritics (which sounds quite plausible).

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