[#JRA-11370] Fixed Font Size BAD Usability for Kanji/Chinese Fonts

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Fixed Font Size BAD Usability for Kanji/Chinese Fonts

Created: 24/Oct/06 09:50 AM Updated: 06/Nov/06 08:58 PM

Component/s:

Internationalisation, Web interface

Affects Version/s:

3.6.3

Fix Version/s:

None

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Not Specified

Environment:

Japanese Version

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This issue relates to:

JRA-9950 JIRA Skins

Participants:	Anton Mazkovoi [Atlassian] and Chris Marshall
Since last comment:	2 years, 9 weeks, 1 day ago
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Folks,

You specify fixed font sizes for the JIRA fields. I'll check and see if this is in the CSS. If that is the case, I'll be able to fix it (I'm pretty sure I'll be able to address it).

I got complaints from a Chinese and a Japanese user that they can't enlarge the font enough to be able to decipher Kanji/Chinese script.

We need to allow them to enlarge the font enough to be able to view the script.

As I said, I'll probably be able to address this in CSS, but you might want to look at what you are distributing.

This is immediately visible in the "Edit Preferences" page. When my engineer enlarged the font, the outer areas and the admin menu enlarged, but the part in the work area did not enlarge. In addition, bold text is the enemy of Kanji.

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Chris Marshall added a comment - 24/Oct/06 11:06 AM

Just FYI: I was able to fix this by changing the BODY (you guys need to modernize your XHTML) tag to font-size: medium, as well as a couple more fixed sizes in there.

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Anton Mazkovoi [Atlassian] added a comment - 06/Nov/06 05:30 PM

Chris,

Thank you for the note. We are working on improving our HTML and CSS. Ideally we would like fonts and colors to be easily customisable.

We actually have a Japanese partner (imaHima) who distribute JIRA translated into Japanese:
http://www.atlassian.jp/

I do not remember them ever mentioning that fonts cause a problem.

Could I confirm that the main problem is that the font in input boxes does not change size when the size of the normal text is changed (e.g. enlarged).

Thanks,
Anton

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Chris Marshall added a comment - 06/Nov/06 08:58 PM

We got it from Imahima.

The issue was with the font size that you had specified in the BODY tag. It was a fixed size (11, I believe).

I simply overrode it in the CSS document to be "small." This allowed the main font to be scaled, and, as a result, all others, as well.

It may have as much to do with the OS version (Vista) and the monitor/graphic card version. The woman who complained to me about it is from Mainland China, and was trying the Taiwanese variant of Chinese.