Bug 218332

Summary:

Add support for uncommon space widths in monospace font

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Raphael Schaad <raphael.schaad>

Component:

Text

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

NEW ---

Severity:

Normal

CC:

mmaxfield, smoley, webkit-bug-importer

Priority:

Keywords:

InRadar

Version:

Safari 14

Hardware:

Mac

OS:

macOS 10.15

Attachments:

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Visual comparison between monospace Blink/WebKit space rendering.	none

Description Raphael Schaad 2020-10-29 05:31:10 PDT

Created attachment 412634 [details]
Visual comparison between monospace Blink/WebKit space rendering.

Safari/WebKit doesn't fall back to another font from a monospace font for uncommon space characters, i.e. there's only regular space, zero-width space, and a (wide) ideographic space. See attachment for the difference between Chrome/Blink and Safari/WebKit.

A related issue might be "[LFC][IFC] Add support for zero-width-space character (U+200B)" https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205586

Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2020-10-29 18:29:36 PDT

<rdar://problem/70837989>

Comment 2 Myles C. Maxfield 2021-02-03 20:52:42 PST

This is a good idea.