Hi, I would have thought the idea wold be to find out what fonts are installed in the language packs - install. Specify fots before choosing 'serif' e.g. "arial" helvetica, serif but using the names of the fonts in the system.
How can you specify the language if it's a multi-lingual site? I have started playing around with Joomfish recently so I am very interested in all this stuff - especially because I live in Asia. TY, CB On 19/06/2010, at 3:02 AM, Angela French wrote: > Well, I'm on my 7th out of 11 languages today, and only Khmer proved > to be trouble so far. And yes I am adding the xml:lang attribute > to the content div . And I specify UTF-8 in the meta tag. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Richards [mailto:mark.richa...@date.com] > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 12:00 PM > To: Angela French; css-d > Subject: RE: [css-d] styling non-english fonts > >> From: Angela French >> Subject: [css-d] styling non-english fonts >> >> I am creating some foreign language pages. Cambodian/Khmer >> renders vastly different font sizes between browsers. Other >> than making style sheets for each browser to style all my >> page elements, is there some other way? > > I've found that different browsers choose fonts differently, causing > the > appearance of the page to vary widely. For example, my personal site > asked for "Serif" font-family and displayed Chinese text. IE6 used a > blocky sans font, IE 7 and 8 used a serif font, Firefox 2 used a serif > font, and Firefox 3 used a mix of blocky sans and serif. > > The solution for Firefox, in my case, was to apply a lang attribute to > the elements in question, thus instructing Firefox to choose Chinese > fonts for all the characters instead of trying to use Japanese fonts > for > some and Chinese fonts for others. Once I had the page looking ok in > first-class browsers (IE6 still broke) I left it at that, but you will > probably want to specify some fonts and font-sizes in addition to the > lang attribute. > > Mark > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
