[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 18085] font-fallback of Chinese characters

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18085


jungshik.shin at gmail.com changed:

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                 CC|                            |eric at webkit.org,
                   |                            |hyatt at apple.com




------- Comment #5 from jungshik.shin at gmail.com  2008-07-24 20:41 PDT -------
Now I made  a tentative patch to resolve this issue. With my initial patch, the
issue at hand is resolved. However, with that,  Safari's font selection UI
becomes all but useless because 'language/script'-specific font should take a
higher precedence over the font selected in the font selection UI. 

Safari's font-selection UI is too simple and does not allow per-script/language
and per-CSS generic family based selections (as is the case with Firefox and IE
to a lesser extent.).   Webkit's Settings class is also not expressive enough
to carry that information (compared with Gecko's nsIPref).

Because of that, I revised  my patch (I'm gonna attach later this week) to make
it  add   per-script/language and per-CSS generic family fonts AFTER the font
selected via the UI (Settings::SansSerifFamily, etc).  My patch is limited in
another sense because it infers language/script from charset only (NOT refering
to lang/xml:lang which is what bug 10874 is about).  However, I think it can be
improved that way later.

This does not solve the problem at hand, but at least it helps a lot with sites
like http://www.asahi.com or other sites which don't specify font at all or
only minimally.  (asahi.com may not be directly affected by this because
non-Japanese/non-Korean/non-Chinese Windows, Safari currently tries a Japanese
font before trying Chinese and Korean fonts).  However, there are tons of
Chinese web sites which will be helped by this change. 


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