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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 128298
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Closed: Oct 2016
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Change default font settings for Latin script to Latin fonts such as Arial for non-Latin (e.g. CJK) interface

Reported by human.p...@gmail.com, Mar 4 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2638.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Create a new profile to avoid other factors.
2. Change your interface language to Simplified Chinese.
3. Restart Chrome.
4. Open https://en.wikipedia.org

What is the expected behavior?
Content should be shown in English fonts, such as Arial.

What went wrong?
When using non-English interfaces, such as Japanese or Chinese, the default internal settings for Latin script is set to "use default fonts", which are Japanese/Chinese fonts (MS PGothic and SimSun, to be more specific). 

This is sub-optimal because these fonts are not designed for Latin scripts. It looks ugly (see repro and the screenshots provided).

It should explicitly use Latin scripts such as Arial, Times new Roman, for Latin script content in these locales' default settings.

It is *already* the practice for some other situations: 

When you're on English interface,  and visiting Chinese/Japanese content, it will use Chinese/Japanese fonts, respectively;
When you're on Chinese interface, and visiting Japanese content, it will use Japanese fonts (instead of your default chinese fonts).

This issue is to propose:

When you're on Chinese interface, and visiting English content, it SHOULD use English fonts (instead of your default chinese fonts).

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 50.0.2638.0  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 20.0 r0

Kojii, please let me know if there is anything I need to clarify further.
 
ja default font for en content.png
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Comment 1 by b...@chromium.org, Mar 5 2016

Components: Blink>Fonts

Comment 2 by e...@chromium.org, Mar 19 2016

Owner: kojii@chromium.org
Status: Available (was: Unconfirmed)

Comment 3 by kojii@chromium.org, Oct 24 2016

Mergedinto: 128298
Status: Duplicate (was: Available)
Learned today that there's already an issue for this.

Comment 4 by kojii@chromium.org, Oct 24 2016

Also note that what was requested here is the same as  issue 128298 ,  issue 587072  could mitigate this.

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