- From: Robert Linder via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 05:06:37 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Why is this a CSSWG issue? The blog post mentions a couple of things: > It turns out that the value of `system-ui` in fact not only depends on the version of the current OS [...] Why would one expect all OS versions to render the same font? > It could be good to use the OS font to provide the user with a native look and feel, but on Windows, the font family used for UI changes with the language it is in, as well as the theme used. > [...] on Windows 8.1/Windows 10 in Simplified Chinese, the system-ui font family evaluates to Microsoft YaHei UI, which, it turns out, not only lacks many font weights that Segoe UI has (say semibold), but has letters and numbers a little larger and bolder to match the Chinese text than what could have been designed with. Not all fonts support all languages, this is an issue with the rendered font. > On Windows Vista/Windows 7 and corresponding Windows Server versions, with the Windows Classic theme turned on, one might see the good decades-old Tahoma/SimSun/PMingLiU… for system-ui to evaluate to (replicated on Windows Server 2008 R2 in Simplified Chinese). Meaning that `system-ui` is not supported? -- GitHub Notification of comment by Malvoz Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3658#issuecomment-468544227 using your GitHub account
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