91931 - The default linux font for Simplified Chinese seems too big

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Internationalization, defect)

Description

[Yuying Long]

Build: 07-23 branch build, N6.1PR1

This problem is from bug 74889.  The "?" problem in original bug has been fixed.
 Howerver, the big font problem still exsiting.  Since bug 74889 is a PDT bug,
and it's too late to re-open it for now.  I open this one here in order to track it.

Comment 1

[Yuying Long]

Attachment: See the characters oversized the buttons on china.com

Comment 2

[Yuying Long]

Change QA contact to myself and reassign to Brian.

Comment 3

[kill this account]

This looks the same as when I looked at this for bug 74889.

This web page is simulating round buttons by using a round button image as
the background in table cells. The text is the table text drawn over background.

When the requested font size the is not available a larger font is selected 
causing the unplesant effect.

The minimum size and scaling are currently set to 10 so this should not be
causing the problem.

Here are the options I know about:

 1) live with the oversized but readable characters
 2) get a smaller font bitmap'd font
 3) get a outline scaled font

If we ever implemented "anti-aliased bitmap scaled fonts", bug 90813, 
it hopefully should product an acceptable scaled font.

When TrueType font support is implemented in the Linux client, bug 82076,
then the use could use a TrueType scaled font.

Comment 4

[kill this account]

Attachment: image: anti-aliased bitmap scaled from 16 to 12

Comment 5

[Frank Tang]

remove milestone 

Comment 6

[Frank Tang]

move to M9.6 . we need either anti-alias bitmap font or truetype font with
freetype to solve this issue. 

Comment 7

[kill this account]

this should be addressed (for systems with at least a 16 bit frame buffer)
by bug 90813

Comment 8

[Yuying Long]

The orginal problem is not existing on 11-19 trunk build.

Mark it as verified.