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New issue 7160 by dngnta: Wrong font for Japanese characters in English language Chrome http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=7160 Chrome Version : 2.0.159.0 (and all previous versions as well) URLs (if applicable) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification Other browsers tested: Safari 3, Firefox 3, IE 7 Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue: Safari 3: OK (but it actually suffers from the same issue!) Firefox 3: OK IE 7: OK What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Set up Chrome with English UI (in Options, go to Fonts and Languages, change the language used in Google Chrome menus, dialog boxes, and tooltips to English (US)). 2. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification 3. Observe the table below "Examples of language dependent characters". Japanese, Chinese and Korean characters should look distinct, but don't. What is the expected result? - Japanese, Chinese and Korean characters should look distinct. What happens instead? - Japanese, Chinese and Korean characters look identical, and are all rendered with the Chinese Han (CJK) character font. Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if possible. - It appears that Chrome, when set to English UI, defaults to a Chinese font for all Han (CJK) characters. This is regardless of whether the web page explicitly defines the language for that page or paragraph (as in the Han unification Wikipedia article), or doesn't (well, just about any Japanese web page). -- Corollary: If the web page explicitly specifies a Japanese font to be used, such as MS Gothic, everything displays fine. However, many web pages don't do this because they're used to the IE and FF behavior of automatically using the correct font. For example http://mixi.jp/about.pl specifies MS PGothic and therefore renders fine. -- Explicit font setting also cannot be made a requirement due to the fact that Japanese text is included in pages that are otherwise English. It would be ridiculous to expect people to specify a Japanese font every time they used Japanese characters, because it works fine without user intervention in IE and FF. Also, most of the time this isn't even possible (Wikipedia, forum postings, all kinds of Web 2.0 sites that simply don't let you use the font tag). - If I select "Japanese" as the UI language, all CJK characters default to a Japanese font, fixing the problem superficially. However, this is no solution as it breaks Chinese and Korean characters in turn, verifiable in the Han unification Wikipedia article. I also prefer to use the English UI. - Now, Safari does not suffer from this exact bug because it defaults to a Japanese font for the CJK characters, but that just means it fails to render Chinese and Korean characters correctly. - This may be related to issue 2677. - I don't think I should need to mention this, but yes, the differences between Chinese, Japanese and Korean glyphs are big enough that seeing the wrong glyphs makes my eyes bleed every time. Jarring is the term I'd use here. Attachments: chrome_fail.png 154 KB -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
