Le Jeu 16 janvier 2014 18:13, Adam Williamson a écrit : > On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 10:52 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: >> On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 22:31 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: >> > On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 22:59 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: >> > >> > > * Another individual thought that all web authors are stupid for >> > > wanting to use fancy fonts and that I am wasting my time. (He might >> > > be right about that last bit... :-P) >> > >> > While we're doing asides, that one *does* get right on my nerves. >> > >> > If anyone overrides font choices in their browser config and wonders >> why >> > an increasing number of sites - inc. github, and the wordpress admin >> > interface - seem to display weird hieroglyphs all over the place, it's >> > because of this "clever trick": web designers have decided that it's a >> > really good idea to abuse font rendering engines as a way to render >> > icons, and starting shipping icons as made-up Unicode codepoints in >> > their sites' custom fonts. If you override their font choice, then of >> > course these icons wind up as garbage, because your font does not have >> > them, because ICONS AREN'T FUCKING TEXT CHARACTERS, web designers. >> >> It makes a lot of sense, actually. At least the symbolic icons that have >> become prevalent in our uis share a lot of characteristics with text, >> and can benefit from getting the same treatment as glyphs. > > Then get the Unicode people sign off on treating your special special > characters as text, otherwise it's just an abuse of the system. And, actually, Microsoft did exactly that : its special UI symbols (in Segoe UI) have all standard codepoints @unicode.org, you can use the Microsoft font with other apps and you can make apps written around the Microsoft font work with FLOSS fonts that implement those codepoints. Not-unicode is only needed for vanity symbols like company logos unicode.org would never accept. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
