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Originally Posted by Sadhu
Hey, I have an iPad right in front of me, and I am looking at the extended character set of Tahoma, and viewing it right now on my iPad.
I looked at the so called complete list of iBook supported fonts in your pigshourdanswikis.com example, and didn't see Tahoma listed. But below is an brief example of Tahoma's extended character set, used to give the Transliterated Sanskrit in one of our books.
yogaś citta vṛtti nirodhaḥ
tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe 'vasthānaṃ
vṛtti sārūpyam itaratra
vṛttayaḥ pańcatayyaḥ kliṣṭā 'kliṣṭāḥ
So, okay, if it's not embedding, and Tahoma is not on your list, how is the iBook showing these extended characters. To my knowledge these extended characters show up differently using fonts other than Tahoma. If Tahoma is not on the list, how is it that I can see them? I'd really like to know.
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I think its interesting! Perhaps Tahoma was missed in that list posted...I think people are still discovering what iBooks is capable of. But I do know a lot of eBook professionals have been doing testing on what the extents are for iBooks, for obvious reasons.
From what I've read
to date, the iPad does not include Tahoma, and iBooks does not support embeddable fonts-with the exception of the @font-face tag for SVG fonts, according to one researcher.
Can you do a screenshot of your text in Tahoma? I'd like to see it if possible. I do know there is nothing stopping 3rd party apps from theoretically supporting embedded fonts, so maybe iBooks does but its just not implemented/documented completely yet.