Closed
Bug 27058
Opened 25 years ago
Closed 24 years ago
Return of the Ugly Cyrillic Font
Categories
(Core :: Internationalization, defect, P3)
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M16
People
(Reporter: sher07, Assigned: erik)
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Dear Mozilla; A few days ago I wrote in to congratulate you on replacing the ugly, unprofessional Cyrillic font in M12 with the new, fine-quality Cyrillic font in M13. I am sure other Slavicits will also appreciate this new font. It's great. HOWEVER, I have just tried out the Feb 8 build of M14 and was shocked to see the old, ugly font back alive and well. Of course, this is to some extent a subjective matter. However, I feel that the M13 Times-like Cyrillic font is much more professional and appropriate for reading Russian texts on the Web and is as suitable for 14 point and 12 point texts as 10 point texts. It would seem to me that the Russian reader and, in fact, the foreigner reader in general, deserves a font JUST AS GOOD AND PROFESSIONAL as the English font. So, I urge you to investigate the matter and restore the new M13 Russian font in the M14 milestone. You are all working hard to produce a great browser. Why not give us the best you can here, too. Thank you. Benjamin
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Comment 2•25 years ago
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We had some ugliness problems with English fonts too. If you have an environment variable called GECKO_FONT_SIZE_FACTOR, please unsetenv it, and try again.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M15
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Comment 4•24 years ago
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What is the name of the better font? How many Linux Cyrillic users have that font? Target M16, after Beta 1 branch.
Target Milestone: M15 → M16
Comment 5•24 years ago
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This was sent to me from sher07@bellsouth.net: MY COMMENT: As I mentioned in my earlier message, I have NO WAY of finding out the name of the good Cyrillic font, but I can assure you that it was used in Milestone 13. The Cyrillic font in Milestone 13 is a fine quality Cyrillic font. It replaced the UGLY Cyrillic font used in Milestone 12 and earlier milestones. But for some reason, Milestone 14 returned to the UGLY Cyrillic font used in Milestone 12. May I please ask you, for the sake of a professional Cyrillic look on your Russian pages, to find out the name of the Cyrillic font used in Mozilla Milestone 13 (thirteen) and restore it in Milestone 15 or 16. Thank you so much. Benjamin
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Comment 6•24 years ago
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Sher07, please send me, in separate email (not in this bug report), the output of "xlsfonts". E.g.: xlsfonts | mail erik@netscape.com
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Comment 7•24 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20959 ***
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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