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Bug 29953 - Map "font-family: cursive" to platform Nastaliq font
Summary: Map "font-family: cursive" to platform Nastaliq font
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: CSS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Fonts (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John Daggett
QA Contact: public-css-bugzilla
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Reported: 2016-10-20 18:30 UTC by Ebrahim Byagowi
Modified: 2016-10-20 18:32 UTC (History)
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Description Ebrahim Byagowi 2016-10-20 18:30:44 UTC 
After seeing https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/206791/ I thought it would be good idea to encourage browser vendors to also map "font-family: cursive" to a Nastaliq font [if not defining a dedicated name to Nastaliq family of fonts].

Some initial possible mapping, just to illustrate eventual possible effect of the document change, using fonts available one the platforms:

* "Urdu Typesetting" to "cursive" on Windows 8 > on browsers on Windows for Urdu.
* "Noto Urdu Nastaliq" to "cursive" on Android, [Linux and iOS?] for Urdu.

And if it is possible to map generic font name to a not platform font but generally available one,
* "IranNastaliq" to "cursive" on all platform.