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Reported by Sakuya:
Since internationalization is the theme of the next release, I suppose
it's time to mention that font display is cruddy on many Japanese pages
with the default preferences, and with the fonts I got from Apple.
In new profiles, it appears that you get Osaka for most purposes, and
Osaka-Touhaba for the monospaced font.
It looks like the 6 Truetype fonts which I got in Apple's JLK don't have
hinting information for the less common type sizes, so 9,10,12,14 and 18
point look good, as well as anything 24 or larger, but 11,13,15,16,17
and 19-23 to varying extents look like crud. These sizes can be avoided
in word processing documents - SimpleText doesn't have any menu option
to choose them - but they come up all the time in web pages.
Turning on anti-aliasing in the Appearances control panel helps.
Switching the default serif font in Classilla from Osaka to Honminchou-M
also helps. If that isn't sufficient, one can play with the text zoom
until the main text of a page is clearly displayed, but it usually
results in other text on the page entering one of the less supported sizes.
Maybe it would be possible to add an option to the browser which would
always round type sizes to the nearest "good" size. Using the minimum
font size option to boost the size of some text on the page doesn't
break layout, so it seems that it should be possible.
Apart from that, I installed GNU Unifont, which has "glyphs for every
printable code point in the Unicode 5.1 Basic Multilingual Plane".
(The idea of this font is not to give perfect characters for every
script, but rather to give something for all the rest you don't usually
use, with a single install.)
This can be had from http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html , and a
shareware utility to convert the .ttf file to a Mac OS Classic format
can be found at http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/4632 .
The font is 15.5MB uncompressed.
It looks like iCab 3.05E can recruit characters needed from among the
fonts installed, and has distinct placeholder glyphs for many different
scripts. If I put Unifont into the fonts folder, it automatically picks
it up and uses it. It would be handy if Classilla could do the same
thing - I set it to use unifont for Unicode-encoded pages, and many of
the languages listed on www.wikipedia.org still display as ?????s.
...although that's more than you had planned for 9.2.1.
This probably has a lot of dependencies on layout, so we'll block this on issue
1, but we do need to deal with this eventually.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by classi...@floodgap.com on 27 Jul 2010 at 12:35
Actually, it does use ATSUI for Mac-specific things, which is where the 8.5
requirement for Classilla comes in. It doesn't use it everywhere, but it would
be better to clean up the remaining places after the layout transplant.
Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 26 Jan 2011 at 5:51
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
classi...@floodgap.com
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