https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58214
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Bug ID: 58214
Summary: Chinese characters italicized on Wikipedia
Product: Wikimedia
Version: wmf-deployment
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: minor
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Created attachment 14033
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Example of unreadable italicized Chinese characters in Wikipedia
This regards the English version of Wikipedia.
When Chinese characters are used as part of a title or similar text section
that is enclosed inside a pair of doubled quotes (''), the Chinese characters
are italicized. This is not in line with the best practice of writing Chinese.
Also it makes the characters unreadable in some typefaces.
''Fusion of Music and Calendar 乐律融通''
Example taken from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament#Early_history_2
This could be seen as a problem that the browser (in my case Firefox) should
take care of. However there's no reason that Wikipedia would tell the browser
that Chinese characters be italicized -- instead it should add emphasis mark to
the character. When Chinese characters are used in the English Wikipedia I
think that this would be done automatically if the characters occur inside '':s
http://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-decor-3/#text-emphasis-style-property
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