missing glyphs: bug, omission or design?

[Thiago Macieira]

Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
>Are examples of not so common characters. Konq (3.5 branch) doesn't show
>all of them because Georgia (site declared font) doesn't have all of
>them. Other browsers (eg. FF, Safari) show all of them "borrowing"
>missing fonts. Is this bug, omission or design decision?

It's a shortcoming of the Qt3 font handling engine. In Qt 4, the engine 
can do font substitutions much better.

>Attaching zipped version of site with commented out all font-family
>declarations to show how it works with user default fonts.

Take a look at the screenshot I've attached. On the right it's a normal 
KHTML view (inside Ark, but you'd get the same in Konqueror). On the 
left, it's Qt4's textedit demo.

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