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they work in more places

e.g. other operating systems

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?

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

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