Unicode character-specific CSS - a thought

Question

As a native Bānglā (Language: Bengali) writer, we are dependent on to Unicode Bānglā characters. As we all know Unicode is an extended version of ASCII, and all the ASCII ch

Answer 1

This is entirely a problem of fonts. If you choose a well balanced font in which glyph sizes are adjusted in a way that mixed language text looks good together, there's no real problem. CSS can help you here in so far as you can specify custom fonts for certain characters using @font-face:

@font-face {
  font-family:   'bangla';
  src:           url('http://example.com/mybangla.ttf');
  unicode-range: U+0980-09FF;
}

This fictional "bangla" font now applies only to the Unicode range U+0980 - U+09FF, which is the Bengali block. Choose some fonts wisely and you can create a well balanced appearance in modern browsers.