build a font for your endangered language...

[Christopher Doty]

The problem is more with web-based blogging platforms which, like
email applications, don't allow you to install fonts.  The additional
problem is that, even if you use WordPress, anyone else in the world
who views the blog won't be able to see the characters correctly.  The
same for email: the program you use might allow you to type in any
font you like, but it will likely end up garbled if you're emailing
someone with the hotmail address..

Chris

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:03 PM, William J Poser <wjposer at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
> Christopher Doty writes:
>>The problem is that there are lots of venues where a font simply CAN'T
>>be installed (cell phones, webmail applications, and blogging
>>platforms come immediately to mind), as well as public computers, as
>>you noted.
>
> Yes, that is true of cell phones. Is it true of webmail applications
> and blogging platforms? I don't have enough experience of webmail to know,
> but I have used Movable Type and Wordpress for blogging and they don't
> seem to have a problem using whatever fonts I install on my system.
>
> Bill
>