[thelist] Internationalization - Japanese Translation

[Ben Gustafson]

Hi Warren,

The MS Gothic family is the standard font on Windows machines for
Japanese.

Something sounds strange with the readability of the Japanese fonts on
your site. Readability of the Japanese should not be poor if you have
the font size set to 11px, and the browser should just ignore your
font-family specification of Verdana and default to whatever is
installed on your machine. Can you post a URL? Also, have you tried
testing it on a native Japanese OS/browser combination?

Check out http://www.lionbridge.com and choose the Japanese language
(the top language in the right-side column under "Change Language") to
see how that looks. No Japanese font is specified in the style sheet.

--Ben

> Does anyone know of a good font-family and font-size that is 
> acceptable = in Japanese? =20
> 
> I originally started an application that was an English only 
> = application, that has to be translated into Japanese, 
> followed by = German, Arabic and French.  I'm glad we started 
> the project with = stylesheets.  But now, I have the duty to 
> convert the existing = application from English to Japanese.
> 
> At first look of the application in Japanese the the details 
> of the = glyphs cannot be viewed in Verdana and 11 px, so I 
> increased the size of = the font to 20 px.  However, doing 
> so, screws up the look n feel of the = application, when some 
> lines do the word-wrap thing.
> 
> Is there any easy solution without reinventing the 
> application for the = Japanese, i.e., font-family and/or 
> font-size that I can do?
> 
> This is Thanks Well in Advance!!!
> 
> Warren Murray