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vannilla
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Font for specific characters

Unread post by vannilla » 2018-07-26, 12:17

Hello.
I had installed a font to display certain (offline) contents with the proper formatting.
However, this font ended up being used by Pale Moon to render asian characters, instead of the font I was using till then.
The issue is that this font doesn't make it easy to read at small sizes (I have font size at 16), and since I sometimes read japanese text, I had to remove the font.
I'd like to know if there is a way to tell Pale Moon to use a certain font to display those asian characters, so that I can have the illegible font installed but still use the legible font when browsing the web.
I'm posting this in the Linux subsection in case there are Linux-specific steps to take.
Thank you.

yami_

Re: Font for specific characters

Unread post by yami_ » 2018-07-26, 14:23

vannilla wrote:I'd like to know if there is a way to tell Pale Moon to use a certain font to display those asian characters, so that I can have the illegible font installed but still use the legible font when browsing the web.
Try this:
  1. Go to Tools > Preferences > Content > Fonts & Colors.
  2. Click on Advanced....
  3. In the uppermost drop-down menu select Japanese.
  4. Select preferred serif, sans serif and monospace typefaces.
Pale Moon should now use fonts you specified.

vannilla
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Re: Font for specific characters

Unread post by vannilla » 2018-07-26, 19:47

That worked indeed.
Thank you.
But do I have to do that for every language?

yami_

Re: Font for specific characters

Unread post by yami_ » 2018-07-26, 22:56

vannilla wrote:But do I have to do that for every language?
If you want to use the same typeface everywhere you need to do that for every supported writing system.

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