- From: Koji Ishii via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:30:52 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> If the Windows system font really is ugly in Chinese, what do Chinese native apps do? They just live with the fonts. The difference is that, those apps are in Chinese and that no other choices are available to render Chinese characters. On the other hand, they were seeing much better fonts when they visit github and other English content sites. But with `system-ui`, all such contents were downgraded to the Chinese fonts too. Japanese is in similar situation, and I was under impression that users/authors prefer native fonts, even though it looks worse. The feedback revealed that I was wrong. They preferred English system fonts, no matter which language their platform is in, at least for English contents. We probably need to hard-code the name of English system fonts, and pick it instead of the actual default UI fonts under some conditions. I haven't finalized the exact heuristic yet, I'll think about it more. > In general, I think user agents should have flexibility to select the font(s) to use, even if it doesn't always match the System UI. Oh, really, great if so, thank you. The [definition of `system-ui`](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#system-ui-def) didn't read so to me, but my English isn't great, so I trust your reading. If the spec text already allows UA to pick other arbitrary fonts than "the default user interface font on the platform", this might not be a spec issue. I can investigate how to make authors happy, and may sync with @atanassov and @emilio outside the WG. -- GitHub Notification of comment by kojiishi Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3658#issuecomment-512514812 using your GitHub account
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