89520 - The Ascii characters are display too small when mixed byte string.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Yuying Long]

The Ascii characters are too small compare to double bytes Japanese characters.
I have 2 screen-shot, one is on 07-05 branch build and the other one is 06-18-08
trunk build.

It seems a regression, but since there are not only one change on Linux fonts
recently, it's hardly tell the exact regression day.

Comment 1

[Yuying Long]

Attachment: Netscape-Japan on 07-05 branch build.

Comment 2

[Yuying Long]

Attachment: Netscape-Japan on 06-18-08 trunk build.

Comment 3

[Yuying Long]

My system is ReadHat6.2-Ja.

And I checked Jonathan's RedHat7.1-Ja, the reult is very similar.

Comment 4

[Yuying Long]

Actually there are two problems:
1. The Ascii characters are display too small if the string is combine single byte
and double bytes characters.
2. The space between 2 rows are smaller than those builds earlier than 06-18-08 
trunk build.  You can see it on the screenshot that I'll attach later.  
   This problem you can see it even in English pages, like this bug report page.

Comment 5

[Yuying Long]

Attachment: The buttom part of Netscape-Japan page/07-05 branch build. Notice the highlight part.

Comment 6

[Frank Tang]

reassign to bstell
we should consider to change the japanese default font face or tune up the mini 
font size for japanese to fix it.

Comment 7

[kill this account]

I suggest that the ASCII part is correctly sized and the Japanese part is much
too large.

Could you try changing the Japanese font from jix-fixed to misc-fixed?

Comment 8

[Yuying Long]

If I change Japanese font to misc-fixed, then the Japanese characters are
display smaller and I think it's nicer in Netscape-Japan page.

However, if I visit some other popular Japanese page, e.g.:
http://www.asahi.com, http://www.yomiuri.co.jp ... etc.
then the characters of news title will become really big (see attached file later)

Also, on my machine, Simp. Chinese pages has same problem.

Comment 9

[Yuying Long]

Attachment: After change Japanese font to misc-fixed / 07-05 branch build.

Comment 10

[Yuying Long]

Attachment: Simp. Chinese page, font isas-SongTi/ 07-05 branch build

Comment 11

[kill this account]

Attachment: patch; make minimum Japanese font 16 pixel (sigh)

Comment 12

[kill this account]

the misc-fixed has a nice 10 px font but no larger fonts so the large text gets
scaled which is unreadable.

Unless we know the user has a larger font I guess we should increase the min
Japanese font size to make the ascii part similarly (oversized) sized to the
Japanese text (sigh).

Comment 13

[Frank Tang]

the latest patch will make use back to m91 looking for Japanese sites.
low risk.
r=ftang, please get sr= and land into trunk 
I think we should take it for m92 branch.

Comment 14

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

sr=blizzard

Comment 15

[kill this account]

checked into trunk on Jul 10 16:33

Comment 16

[kill this account]

checked into trunk 2001/07/10 23:33:49

Comment 17

[kill this account]

waiting for PDT+ to checkin to branch

Comment 18

[lchiang]

pdt+ per ftang email to PDT

Comment 19

[kill this account]

checked in to branch

Comment 20

[Yuying Long]

Fixed verified on 07-11 trunk and 07-13 branch build.