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This is baffling. How could something as important as font rendering not be fixed?

• JupiterMoon 10y ago
  Probably because everyone at MS uses MS products and they all have calibri installed...
• DHowett 10y ago
  Equally baffling is that quotes, which should simply demarcate regions within which special characters are ignored, have special semantic meaning to a CSS parser. That narrative, however, isn't one for which we can blame Microsoft.
  • icebraining 10y ago
    I don't agree, one is a string, the other is a symbol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_(programming) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_(programming)
  • pritambaral 10y ago
    They don't have special semantic meaning to CSS the spec. Quotes are needed[0] only if the <family-name> value has whitespace in it. 0: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/font-family#Values https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/font-family#Va...
    • icebraining 10y ago
      They have special meaning since "generic family names (...) must not be quoted".