Comment #19 on issue 16898 by [email protected]: Chinese button in gmail is too small http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=16898
Firefox does try a Japanese font before SC/TC/Korean fonts when no language information to break ties is available. When I view the test page, the page encoding was set to GBK (Simp. Chinese), which is why Simsun (the default Simp. Chinese sans- serif font in Firefox) is used in columns 2 and 5. With the encoding set to Western (ISO-8859-1), MS PGothic (the default sans-serif Japanese font in Firefox) is used for columns 2 and 5. My test page is pure ASCII (I made that on purpose) so that any ASCII-compatible encoding selected in the encoding menu works and can be used to see Firefox/IE's encoding-dependent font selection. BTW, with the encoding set to UTF-8 (or GB2312/GBK), you'll see that in IE the 'simsun' column (as well as 'tmr' column) has tiny glyphs for 10px and 11px/70% ( 10px < 11px/70% < 12px). On the other hand, in 'arial' and 'sans-serif' columns, the font size is kinda 'locked' to 12px ( 10 px = 11px/70% = 12px). Even more strange is that the 'locking' is only applied to Chinese characters. In other words, it seems that the minimum font size is enforced *only* on Chinese characters when 'arial', 'sans-serif' are specified. When it's Times New Roman (i have no idea why it's treateed differently from sans-serif/arial except that TMR is a serif) or Simsun (covering Chinese characters), the font size 'lock' does not seem to kick in in IE8. -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
