On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:37 AM, Angela French wrote:
> Thank you for all the opinions on this subject. I created a test
> page with no applied CSS. It can be seen at:
> http://checkoutacollege.com/testForeign.html . If you try it in
> different browsers, you will see that in IE7 and Opera 9.62 (that's
> all I've tested in so far), the last list item (Cambodian) is too
> small to read. In FF 3.0.15 it is fine.
I had a look at your test case on Windows 7 with IE8/Opera10/
Firefox3.6b2/Safari4.04. Except for Safari, all those browsers (mostly
at their default configuration) display the Khmer language text very
small compared to the other strings of text. Out of curiosity, I
pasted that Khmer string in Notepad. It also displayed very small
compared to a string of Latin text. The font in use is DaunPenh,
installed by default on the OS. I can only conclude that that font has
a quite small aspect ratio (size) - 0.279 say my tools, compare that
to 0.448 for Times New Roman or 0.481 for Georgia.
I don't think the OS ships with other fonts for Khmer, although Win7
ships with a 'Khmer UI' font (I don't think it is suitable for body
text).
On OS X, there are no such differences. The only font I have that
displays Khmer glyphs ('KhmerOS') doesn't ship by default with the OS
- but it is the one that Cambodian people install/recommend. On Linux/
Ubuntu910, I currently don't have a font for Khmer (I need to get
around to finish my re-install).
Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
http://l-c-n.com/
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