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A: Take a stepwise approach to your font selection. First, Trebuchet MS is a sans serif face, so your ultimate fall back is the generic font-family keyword sans-serif. Trebuchet MS does not have the Unicode character coverage you need, so you will have to pick some better candidates to lead with. Alan Wood's Unicode font reference is an excellent place to start.
This Unicode font guide for open source operating systems, also covers Asian fonts.
Check which fonts cover the character ranges you require. For Windows, “Arial Unicode MS” would be a good choice, fall back to standard Arial. Mac fonts tend to cover narrow ranges of the Unicode character set, so you will have to check the specific coverage you need. For Gujarati choose “Gujarati MT” for example.
Unicode font coverage is much more limited on Linux systems, DejaVu Sans, FreeSans and Bitstream Vera Sans would be good choices generally, but may not have the coverage you require. You may need to add lots of options to improve the chance that a suitable font will be matched, and test on several different systems.
font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","Gujarati MT", Arial,"Bitstream Vera Sans","DejaVu Sans", FreeSans, sans-serif;
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