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I finally found out what the problem with this stylesheet was in Linux. Please find the updated version here.
Basically, there were commas instead of semi-colons separating font-family options, so the fallback font (e.g. serif) did not work.

Your version wouldn't work like it was supposed to -- the first semicolon is to be interpreted like the end of the "font-family" clause. Basically, your font-family now contains only one font.

The use of commas, on the other hand, is officially documented: http://www.w3schools.com/CSS/pr_font_font-family.asp

Oops, you're right.
I just did quite a few tests using a custom style sheet, but for some reason I cannot understand,when the font-family options include at least one font that does not support Ancient Greek, Ancient Greek does not work. And, strangely enough, besides Times New Roman and Lucida, it seems that the sans-serif moniker does not work either.
So, the code below works, even if you don't have Tahoma installed, but most other combinations don't.

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body
{
  background: #fefdeb;
  font-family: Tahoma, dejavusans;
  font-size: 13px;
}


These don't work:

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Tahoma, dejavusans, sans-serif;
Tahoma,sans-serif;
sans-serif,Tahoma;

I don't know if you'd be interested in using the example above. It would be useful, and dejavu is installed in all Linux systems by default anyway. (I did get to test goldendict with Windows, and it is not a problem there).

Actually I feel that it was a bug introduced in some QtWebKit version. Some people have already reported their fonts stopped worked properly with GD pre-release versions.

Oops, I did it again (oh whatever).
I realized I did not have Tahoma installed (I thought it was part of mstt-core-fonts). Now that I installed it, it doesn't work with Tahoma either.
So I guess the only font that works for me is dejavusans. I guess you 'll tell me to use a custom stylesheet for that.
Sorry for all the bother.