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Owner: [email protected]
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Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 OS-All Area-BrowserUI i18n

New issue 7319 by [email protected]: Characters in the UI are too small in  
Malayalam (ml) and Bengali (bn) Chrome
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=7319

1. Launch Chrome with '--lang=ml' or '--lang=bn' after
http://codereview.chromium.org/19761/show and  
http://codereview.chromium.org/19545 are landed.

2. Go to the wrench menu (any UI)

3. Malayalam and Bengali characters are smaller than Latin letters. They
are almost illegible.


Cause: MS designed Malayalam and Bengali fonts in such a way that for a
given size (say, 12px), glyphs are much smaller than Latin fonts (e.g.
Arial).

Solutions to consider:
   a. For ml and bn, override what's returned by Windows API (see  
GetMenuFont in views/chrome_menu.cc) and use the font stored in our
resource file. For other cases, we need to do something similar.
   b. Store the UI font size in locale-dependent resources, but this will
    increase the size of Latin letters as well. So, the font size
discrepancy between Latin and Malyalam and Bengali would remain as it is
now.
c. Ignore the problem and add an entry to the FAQ with information as to
how to change the UI font size across Windows.



Note: Other Indian languages ( ta, te, gu, kn, mr, hi) do not have this
problem. Oriya (or) has an issue of its own, which will be filed in another
bug.

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