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GFD .../family page defaults to Cyrillic overview (use "Accept-Language:" or Latin for English page content) #27

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Viewing the family overview page defaults to Cyrillic regardlessly (this is of 
course useful to Russian web designers!) if the family supports Latin, Greek 
and Cyrillic:

  http://code.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Ubuntu (Cy, Gr, La)
  http://code.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Anonymous+Pro (Cy, Gr, La)
  http://code.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Neucha (Cy, La)

It's possibly something to do with alphabetical ordering.  Deciding which to 
default to is a policy issue;  Ideally it could be based on the 
"Accept-Language:" ordering provided by the webserver, although a simpler 
solution in the short term might be to default to the script of the page 
content (English, so defaulting to Latin) which would be less of a shock to 
users.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sladen@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2010 at 9:56

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Our website links take people to the latin subset by default, so users wont see 
this, but its a good suggestion :)

Original comment by d.crossland on 21 Dec 2010 at 10:33

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
GFD itself might not ...but *81%* (2,880/3,540) of the incoming links to 
individual families in the GFD don't include the subset parameter (eg. see the 
top hit, linking to Droid Sans):

  http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%2B%22http%3A%2F%2Fcode.google.com%2Fwebfonts%2Ffamily%3Ffamily%22+-subset

This probably wasn't spotted as an issue earlier because the typefaces were 
predominately Latin only.

Original comment by sladen@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2010 at 10:45