Re: [css-fonts] font-language-override

What's wrong with lang / xml:lang?!
On May 30, 2016 10:26 PM, "Andrew Cunningham" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The current editors draft indicates that font-language-override feature is
> at risk.
>
> This feature can be used with firefox, but not with other browsers.
>
> Current support means we can use the Padauk or Noto Sans Myanmar for a
> range of languages in Firefox that can not be supported by the same font in
> other browsers. For instance if I need to support some of the other Karen
> languages using Sgaw Karen preferences, i can not currently rely on
> font-language-override suppot to handle this.
>
> This forces us to hack the fonts in question making alternative language
> versions of the fonts where the default rendering is changed.
>
> Reengineering fonts in this way is beyond the ability of the average web
> developer and browser developers should not be placing this burden on web
> developers.
>
> If font-language-override is dropped from the spec, an alternative method
> exposing browsers default locl processing needs to be exposed to web
> developers, allowing web developers to override locl processing in some
> fashion.
>
> Andrew
>