[sword-devel] A question about fonts - to get front-end developers thinking

[Michael H]

On other systems, this is addressed with font per Unicode range tables.
That is, each character or paragraph style has the option to have
supplementary fonts assigned to a range of Unicode.  This might not be
feasible with low power processors you see in today's mobile devices.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/unicode-range

On Saturday, December 19, 2015, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Suppose a Bible translation for language with a non-Roman script has
> footnotes that contain some Hebrew or Greek text.
>
> What then?
>
> The likelihood that a single Unicode font has coverage for the Biblical
> languages as well as the target language non-Roman script is pretty small.
>
> Is anyone researching this?
>
> Code2000 might be first choice, but this lacks sufficient coverage for
> codepoints added in Unicode 5.0 and later.
>
> David
>
> PS. I first raised this question in the Facebook group called Digital Bible
> and Translation Issues.
> Our STEP Bible friends at Tyndale House, Cambridge have already encountered
> this problem.
>
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