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State of Text Rendering

State of Text Rendering

Posted Jul 14, 2009 19:33 UTC (Tue) by behdad (subscriber, #18708)
In reply to: State of Text Rendering by liljencrantz
Parent article: State of Text Rendering

This problem is not limited to Han Unification though. Persian and Arabic for example also use the same Unicode characters, but have differing font preferences. The bottomline is: for good text, you need language annotation. And if you have that, the East Asian text is not much different anymore.


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State of Text Rendering

Posted Jul 15, 2009 7:05 UTC (Wed) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link]

(Un)Cool. Didn't know that. Thanks for enlightening me.

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