- From: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:03:24 +0900
- To: CJK discussion <public-i18n-cjk@w3.org>
- Cc: Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com>, Makoto Kato <m_kato@ga2.so-net.ne.jp>
Received on Tuesday, 26 July 2016 05:04:13 UTC
Hi, A bug was filed to Blink[1] saying it doesn't pick appropriate fonts for Yue, Wu, and other Chinese. A similar bug is also found in Gecko for Yue[2] and Wu[3]. To pick appropriate fonts, browsers need to know whether traditional or simplified is preferred for the language, and I believe it's the same for Gecko. Yue looks easy, all information I looked for says traditional. Wu is a little harder, but IIUC it looks like the majority is simplified, so probably the correct thing is to map "wuu" and "zh-wuu" to simplified, while "wuu-hant" and "zh-hant-wuu" to traditional. Now, ISO says there are 14 languages in Chinese macrolanguage[4]. Would it be possible to provide a guidance of whether browsers should pick simplified or traditional for each Chinese macrolanguge? [1] https://crbug.com/611817 [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484191 [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1244404 [4] http://www-01.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=zho /koji
Received on Tuesday, 26 July 2016 05:04:13 UTC