Open Bug 1914311 Opened 2 months ago

Word spacing control has no effect on Chinese/Japanese text

Categories

(Toolkit :: Reader Mode, defect, P4)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Reader Mode
Type:
defect

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(Reporter: rhn0312, Unassigned)

Details

The word spacing slider does not result in any change to the spacing for Chinese/Japanese text, and presumably any other language with a character-based writing system. The slider should be hidden for these languages. The fix could be to use the HTML lang attribute to check if the article is in Chinese/Japanese etc. based on the country code, and hide the word spacing slider accordingly.

STR: Visit an article in Chinese/Japanese, e.g. http://www.firefox.com.cn/about/career/. Open the text layout menu, and under the advanced section toggle the word spacing slider.

Interestingly, word spacing does work for Korean since it's phonetic/syllabic!

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