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>"The problem starts with humans having languages with uncountably many different characters. A webfont can be efficiently small if it includes characters only
by JetAlone 5y ago
>"The problem starts with humans having languages with uncountably many different characters. A webfont can be efficiently small if it includes characters only for the latin script. But what if I want to write Greek? Or Korean? Or Tamil? Something semi-terrible happens then. Thankfully, (probably) the text will still be displayed because the browser will fall back to another font for the characters the webfont of choice does not define."
Hmmmm, what about downloading webfont package language character sets piecemeal? Load the Greek alphabet if the page needs a greek character, etc. Granted logograms will be pretty heavy, but maybe with some statistical analysis they could be subsectioned into "frequently used together" categories.
- innocenat 5y agoThat's literally what Google Font does for you, automatically. I also do the same for my website (which needs Latin, Thai, and Japanese).