Interactive test of fonts available on Mac and Unix

Instructions

1. If cyrillic and latinic phrases are both displayed correct and in the font indicated by the label, check ‘Test passed’.
2. If phrases are displayed in the same font but you think that it is not font which is listed in that family (indicated by the label), check both.
3. If phrases and not displayed in the same font, leave both empty.

Test (charset: utf-8)

Font family: Palatino, "Palatino Linotype", serif

Cyr: Съешь же ещё этих мягких французских булок да выпей чаю. (Љ Њ Ђ Ј Ћ Ѕ Џ)

Lat: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. (A B C D 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)

Test passed   Font not listed

Font family: "Times CY", "Times New Roman", serif

Cyr: Съешь же ещё этих мягких французских булок да выпей чаю. (Љ Њ Ђ Ј Ћ Ѕ Џ)

Lat: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. (A B C D 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)

Test passed   Font not listed

Font family: "Helvetica CY", Helv, Arial, sans-serif

Cyr: Съешь же ещё этих мягких французских булок да выпей чаю. (Љ Њ Ђ Ј Ћ Ѕ Џ)

Lat: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. (A B C D 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)

Test passed   Font not listed

Font family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif

Cyr: Съешь же ещё этих мягких французских булок да выпей чаю. (Љ Њ Ђ Ј Ћ Ѕ Џ)

Lat: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. (A B C D 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)

Test passed   Font not listed

Font family: "Everson Mono Unicode", "Andale Mono", monospace

Cyr: Съешь же ещё этих мягких французских булок да выпей чаю. (Љ Њ Ђ Ј Ћ Ѕ Џ)

Lat: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. (A B C D 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)

Test passed   Font not listed

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About test

Why Mac and Unix? The Windows OS is very unpopular between developers and their (Microsoft) Explorer, together with Outlook Express, Outlook, Miscrosoft Office and other Internet and non-Internet applications (each version) is very vulnerable means unsecure and very dangerous especially for average (non-advanced) users. But Windows have very strong Unicode support and really have no problems with fonts at all. So, base idea of this test is to find font-family where non-western serif will be displayed (substituted) everywhere as serif, sans-serif as sans-serif etc. means each generic familly to be displayed according to w3.org specification.

This page screenshots

Windows

[Mozilla 1.6 (41.00 KiB)] - no any difference between cp1251 and utf-8

Mac

[Safari 2.0.1 (Mac OS X 10.4.2) (185.98 KiB)] [Safari 1.1 (86.67 KiB)] [Safari [2] (90.76 KiB)]

[Explorer (62.54 KiB)]

[Mozilla (61.33 KiB)]

[Opera (75.92 KiB)]

Unix

[Mozilla (53.10 KiB)]

Thanks to jimlongo for nice screenshots.