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by asimuvPR 3643 days ago
This is baffling. How could something as important as font rendering not be fixed?
2 comments

Probably because everyone at MS uses MS products and they all have calibri installed...
Equally baffling is that quotes, which should simply demarcate regions within which special characters are ignored, have special semantic meaning to a CSS parser.

That narrative, however, isn't one for which we can blame Microsoft.

I don't agree, one is a string, the other is a symbol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_(programming)
They don't have special semantic meaning to CSS the spec. Quotes are needed[0] only if the <family-name> value has whitespace in it.

0: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/CSS/font-family#Va...

They have special meaning since "generic family names (...) must not be quoted".