Re: font formats and SVG2 (was Re: minutes, SVG WG Auckland F2F, day 3)
John Hudson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.fonts |
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| Organization | Tiro Typeworks |
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John Daggett wrote: > Unicode variation selectors are supported in Firefox 4 on all > platforms. The requirements are an OpenType font with a format14 > character map, one that establishes the mapping between selector > values and variant glyphs. An example would be Adobe's "Kozuka > Mincho ProN". No commercially available OS ships with a font > supporting IVS, not OSX, not Windows 7 nor any version of > Android. (If there is I would love to be corrected). I think that is correct with regard to *Ideographic* Variation Selectors, but if someone is looking for an OS font with a format14 cmap for testing, the version of the Cambria Math font that ships with Windows 7 supports variation selector sequences for math symbols. JH