https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63817
Bug ID: 63817
Summary: Provide a workaround to IE's bug that causes the
generic "serif" rendered broken
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Skin and page rendering
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Web browser: ---
Mobile Platform: ---
A known bug [1] of Internet Explorer 10 and earlier makes the generic "serif"
rendered poorly in Japanese, mixing one font (a Mincho font, close to serif)
and another (said to be the Korean "Batang" font, close to sans-serif),
character by character in one line. (screen shot in [2]) Because Latin-script
fonts specified for headings in the current Vector skin are not applicable to
Japanese scripts, the generic "serif" has to be applied. This results in IE
users in Japanese experiencing a readability issue due to the forementioned
rendering bug of the browser.
Note that this is not merely an aesthetic preference, but a problem close to
breakage in the interface; when users see this anomaly in the font style, most
would go to check and see if something is broken on their computers.
[1]
http://answers.microsoft.com/ja-jp/ie/forum/all/css%E3%81%AEfont/76ecfcff-ca10-41c7-9a77-baa823ec89a0
[2] https://sites.google.com/site/jawpspace/jawp_font_ie9s.png
Also discussed in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Typography_refresh#About_troubles_include_IE.27s_rendering_error_in_Japanese_Wikipedia
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