Google Chrome

Was playing with Google Chrome yesterday

interesting, although problematic from an internationalisation 
perspective, it would seem that Google Chrome was designed from the 
point of view of monolingual web use.

I assume there is a mechanism for automatically selecting a default 
font, not sure how WebKit handles that, but in terms of the UI, support 
is limited.

Looking at the UI and the preferences file it appears that you can set 
values for:

* Default fonts (can set following values: default_fixed_font_size, 
default_font_size, fixed_font_family, sansserif_font_family, 
serif_font_family). N.B this is not by Unicode block, there is nothing 
in the UI or preferences files that allow you to select different 
default fonts for different scripts or Unicode blocks. Seems to be one 
size fits all approach and the rest left to internal font fall back 
mechanisms. Google Chrome seems to be a platform where language specific 
styling will be critical,

* Default encoding

* UI language: based on supported locales. Quite useful actually

* Spell checker language: based on supported locales

* Accept-language: selected form list, cannot add custom values via UI, 
e.g. en-AU, en-NZ. Might be able to add them directly to the preferences 
file, but not sure how the UI will handle it. Will have to test.

Andrew

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