[RubyPinch]

they work in more places

e.g. other operating systems

[ralonso]

I'm genuinely curious, do you have any idea how other OSs handle fonts? Does OSX have something similar to Linux's X11's font configuration? What about Windows?

[RubyPinch]

if I'm not mistaken, windows can handle fallback fonts, but it requires a fair bit of manual working to do

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd3...

so in most cases, it is unsupported, and in situations where it is supported, it is usually not exposed as an option