[Launchpad-translators] [Launchpad-users] Chromium browser now translatable in Launchpad
Jeroen Vermeulen
jtv at canonical.com
Sun Dec 12 03:54:51 UTC 2010
On 2010-12-11 22:18, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> Sorry if I offended any one, my comment was about making chromium the
> default browser, not directed to any ones comment, sorry again. I'm not
> a native English speaker either, so I didn't realise how strong the
> words I used.
The choice of default browser for Ubuntu is made somewhere else, as far
as I know, not by the people involved here.
That said, what you say here is very important:
> My concern is that chromium on Linux, unlike on Windows, has serious RTL
> and complex text layout issues, all have been reported for months now,
> and not yet fixed, so replacing a browser with excellent language
> support with a broken one is a step backwards and whoever is taking that
> decision should consider that.
That's true—Chromium fails horribly at displaying various languages. A
lot of bugs have been filed, but until they are fixed the browser is not
ready for a worldwide audience.
One of the bugs I saw on Google's issue tracker may shed some light on
the problem: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=39190
This suggests that font spacing breaks on GNU/Linux systems with fonts
that do not have the "x" character.
Jeroen
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