User agents must recognize and correctly match all of these names independent of the underlying platform localization, system API used or document encoding' Here is what W3C have to say in CSS Fonts Module Level 3 w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#font-family-prop: ' Some font formats allow fonts to carry multiple localizations of the family name.
I did switch my OSX to Chinese and repeated my tests but the results were the same. Only Firefox worked correctly!!! My OSX localization for the tests was English. I tested with Chrome (.63), Firefox (v26.0) and Safari (v7.0.1). Figure 1 shows correct Browser behaviour and Figure 2 shows incorrect browser behaviour.įigure 1: Correct Browser Behaviour, strings a and b rendered with same fontįigure 2: Incorrect Browser Behaviour, strings a and b rendered with different fonts It is expected that a Browser will always recognise an English font name but, as will demonstrated, Chinese font names are often not recognised. A Browser that does not recognise the Chinese name will use a substitute font and hence a and b text will appear differently. A Browser that recognises both the English and Chinese names for a font will render a and b text identically as it will be using the same font.
