If you have a coded character set that understands Cherokee, etc, Gavin's
proposal handles it. But let's remember: If I specify a family type of
"Cherokee" (if such a thing exists) when you download this file you had
better have a font with the same name on your system or you will see
nothing. Trying to come up with a scheme of downloading such a font given
a URL would be problematic due to copyright issues.
I think we will find that, in practice, glyphs as obscure as hieroglyphics
will be added to files as polygonal objects because authors will assume
very few people have hieroglyphic outline fonts lying around.
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