811201 - Use proportional fonts for Japanese

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/941011

Change the pref value for Font.name-list.sans-serif.ja to include Roboto and Droid Sans to the font list. Should we do this for other Asian languages?

Comment 1

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

Jonathan, any thoughts here?

Comment 2

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

Attachment: include Western fonts in Japanese font prefs, to avoid using ugly Latin letters from CJK fonts

Yes, it looks like this would be a good idea; it makes Latin-script text within Japanese pages look much nicer.

Comment 3

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/5935517adf4d

Comment 4

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5935517adf4d