On Sunday 12 January 2014, Paul Norman wrote: > Right now the main OpenStreetMap.org stylesheet uses Unifont as a > fallback font to render Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) > characters, as well as any other characters not present in the DejaVu > font. Unifont is mainly designed to support all characters, and is > not designed to look good.
The problems with the fonts are not at all limited to CJK - Arabic and other languages using Arabic script are not well readable either. As Hans Schmidt said much of this is related to size - in a unified font the non-latin scripts are usually arbitrarily scaled to fit into a latin line geometry. In your demo the alternative fallbacks do not seem to contain Arabic characters - the missing glyphs are however often the ones worst to read in the normal rendering (although the other ones are not great either). -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
