Axel Hecht wrote: > On a regular XP, the ellipsis is rendered similarily to ... (just more > closely spaced). On a Japanese Windows, it's apparently rendered with MS > UI Gothic, which places the dots on the middle of the line vertically. > Now that obviously looks wrong for English text, but I wonder if it's > right in other scripts, in particular, for Japanese. Independent of > other apps using '.''.''.' and thus being on the baseline, the font > might be right for Japanese script. (The bug has a testcase for the > ellipsis in both fonts.)
> Are there similar problems for other scripts? > Could this happen to other glyphs? First, I think this is truly a i18n problem, so I'll restrict there. Yes, you would have similar problem running a japanese firefox under a chinese OS, all the kanji for menus and button would be rendered using the chinese version that looks ugly. That's the real problem I believe. Using the font the OS tells you to use to display your application's menus and buttons means the result will be bad as soon as the localization of the OS and of the application don't match. Now this is not as bad as it looks, because doing otherwise means you will loose appearance consistency between applications. _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
