ISSUE-9: OpenType feature preservation
OpenType feature preservation
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- woff
- Raised by:
- Richard Ishida
- Opened on:
- 2010-12-15
- Description:
- 5. Font Data Tables, Note
http://www.w3.org/TR/WOFF/#DataTables
WG Reviewed: Yes
We are concerned about implementers that are ignoring OpenType feature support. This advice falls outside the scope of the WOFF spec, but we think that adding to the note at the bottom of section 5 will be very useful in alerting people to this issue.
We suggest to add some text saying something like this:
"The automatic removal of OpenType features such as GPOS and GSUB information at any stage in the process of deploying a WOFF file is strongly discouraged. Many writing systems around the world rely on these features for very basic display of text in the script that they use."
- Related Actions Items:
- No related actions
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- Review of tracker issues for best practices (from addison@lab126.com on 2015-03-25)
- RE: I18N-ISSUE-9: OpenType feature preservation [WOFF] (from addison@lab126.com on 2010-12-20)
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- Re: I18N-ISSUE-9: OpenType feature preservation [WOFF] (from tiro@tiro.com on 2010-12-20)
- RE: I18N-ISSUE-9: OpenType feature preservation [WOFF] (from Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com on 2010-12-20)
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- Re: I18N-ISSUE-9: OpenType feature preservation [WOFF] (from jdaggett@mozilla.com on 2010-12-18)
- I18N-ISSUE-9: OpenType feature preservation [WOFF] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2010-12-15)
Related notes:
Current status:
Agreement that some warning that removing or ignoring any font table may result in breaking the functionality of the font would be useful, as an informative note.
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The following paragraph is in the CR:
"The automatic removal of OpenType features such as GPOS and GSUB information at any stage in the process of deploying a WOFF file is strongly discouraged. Many writing systems around the world rely on these features for very basic display of text in the script that they use."
The following paragraph is in the CR:
"The automatic removal of OpenType features such as GPOS and GSUB information at any stage in the process of deploying a WOFF file is strongly discouraged. Many writing systems around the world rely on these features for very basic display of text in the script that they use."
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