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[css-fonts-4] Rename "system font fallback" to "installed font fallback" to avoid confusion with the system font #7643

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Expand Up @@ -1940,7 +1940,7 @@ The <dfn id="at-font-face-rule">''@font-face''</dfn> rule</h3>
to use downloaded fonts when rendering characters
in other documents for which
no other available font exists
as part of the <em>system font fallback</em> procedure.
as part of the <em>installed font fallback</em> procedure.
However, this would cause a security leak
since the contents of one page would be able to affect other pages,
something an attacker could use as an attack vector.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3710,7 +3710,7 @@ Cluster matching</h3>
than the general case of matching a single character by itself.
For sequences containing variation selectors,
which indicate the precise glyph to be used for a given character,
user agents always attempt <a>system font fallback</a>
user agents always attempt <a>installed font fallback</a>
to find the appropriate glyph
before using the default glyph of the base character.

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3761,7 +3761,7 @@ Cluster matching</h3>
and the trailing selectors must be ignored. [[!UNICODE]]</li>

<li>Otherwise, the user agent may optionally use
system font fallback
installed font fallback
to match a font that <a>supports</a>
the entire cluster.</li>

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -3819,7 +3819,7 @@ Character handling issues</h3>
contain a glyph for that codepoint,
user agents must display some form of missing glyph symbol
for that character
rather than attempting <a>system font fallback</a>
rather than attempting <a>installed font fallback</a>
for that codepoint.
When matching the replacement character U+FFFD,
user agents may skip the font matching process
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