Re: Fonts in Firefox for names

Hello Addison, Richard, others,

Many thanks for the detailed explanation. So it seems you were worried 
about exactly the same thing as what caught my eye.

Another comment: I'm not sure the choices of Japanese names are very 
good. On the female side, you have "Hatsue", which is a nice name, but 
the Japanese script version (は杖) is quite strange. The name "Hatsue" 
is usually understood to be composed as "Hatsu-e", but は杖 would be 
Ha-tsue. In addition, the Kanji stands for "cane", usually a tool old 
people are using. Not a character typically (if ever) used in a name.
Good alternatives would be 初江、初恵、はつ枝、and quite a few others. 
On the male side, you have Hiroki, which is again fine, but writing a 
male name in all Hiragana is also very unusual (not that I haven't seen 
it, but it's really not usual). Anything like 広木、浩紀、弘樹、博貴、裕 
紀 will do. You can pretty much combine any of the first Kanji in these 
names with any of the second Kanji to get a 
new, usable and probably existing version.

Regards,   Martin.

On 2022-07-08 09:29, Addison Phillips wrote:
> Hello Martin,
> 
> During our call today we were reviewing different proposals for the name list. Richard noticed that his browser was showing some inconsistency for one or two names that I had added in that region. The reason this happened (we debugged later in the call, but probably after our scribe exited) was: those names are tagged in HTML with a <span lang=???> (where ??? is a language tag like `nah` or `tsz`). Firefox was using the font under "Settings > Font > Advanced > Other Writing Systems" because of the language tag, and the font was set differently for Richard (and separately Bert, who found the setting), even though the writing system for Nahuatl and Purepecha are both Latin.
> 
> Richard sent the screenshot to the list while we were on the call as he did not care to share his screen on Zoom and since we were beyond time anyway.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Addison
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
> Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2022 4:31 PM
> To: r12a <ishida@w3.org>; Internationalization Working Group <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: Fonts in Firefox for names
> 
> Hello Richard,
> 
> I'm not sure why you sent this image to the list. But I notice that is some inconsistency in the font used for Latin in the 419 region that I can't explain. (It doesn't have to do with accents.)
> 
> Regards,   Martin.
> 
> On 2022-07-08 00:04, r12a wrote:
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