Although I could specify a correct Armenian font in my CSS, there is no guarantee that the user will have the correct font. The most common fonts for Armenian have the incorrect forms. Sure enough, when I looked at the Unicode PDF chart for Armenian and compared it with some common fonts, I found out there were significant differences. Quality fonts featuring characters with exotic accents or lesser used scripts are not widely available yet, leaving us with more generic fonts which vary in quality depending on the expertise of the font designer.Ī few weeks ago I was gently chided by a very polite Armenian speaker who informed me that the Penn State Armenian Unicode chart had incorrect character forms for the punctuation. There's still one gap in Unicode implementation. * Note: This entry was published elsewhere in 2006.
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