621842 - font size cannot be changed for unicode encoding

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 91190

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[lvm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101123 SeaMonkey/2.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101123 SeaMonkey/2.0.11

Seamonkey allows specifying font sizes for various encodings in preferences-appearance-fonts, however unicode is missing from the list of available encodings, as a result font size can be changed only for sites which use single-byte encodings e.g. ISO-8859-1 but not for site which use unicode e.g. UTF-8 and which comprise the majority of internet today.

Two additional moments:

1. font size settings in preferences change font.size.* keys in config, e.g. font.size.variable.x-western for variable western font. There is a font.size.variable.x-unicode key but when changed manually it seems to do nothing

2. minimum font size for western fonts (font.minumum-size.x-western) does affect unicode pages, but default font sizes (font.size(variable|fixed).x-western) don't

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

- Choice of fonts is by language (or language group), not by encoding
- At the bottom of the list, there are "Other" and "User defined" which should fit where other languages don't

Comment 2

[lvm]

(In reply to comment #1)
> - Choice of fonts is by language (or language group), not by encoding
> - At the bottom of the list, there are "Other" and "User defined" which should
> fit where other languages don't
All right, what language group does www.mozilla.org use? I suggest you try first.

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

If Simon's comment [ bug 474182 comment 4 ] applies here, then the font size depends on the encoding group, while the font family depends on the actual language set using "lang" or a similar attribute.

You may want to try changing the sizes for Cyrillic, see bug 655330.