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by sieve 529 days ago
I primarily test with Chrome and Firefox (Epiphany, occasionally). And my usecase requires that I provide downloadable fonts as not all fonts have nice-looking Devanagari renderings. So, the overriding happens naturally.
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Yeah, I also target Chrome and Firefox. I'll occasionally test on Edge.

I had a user report that pinyin was looking funny on Reddit. Turns out they use a system font stack which includes Verdana (and so only shows up on Windows), and Verdana does really poorly with Pinyin ruby (iirc it was a generic ruby thing, not just Pinyin).

I just replaced it with a custom system font stack without Verdana.

Not a difficult fix, but something to be aware of.