web text folks: should skip-ink be language dependent? I can't see it working well for ... basically any Perso-Arabic word with lower i'jam
Khaled Hosny @KhaledGhetas
3 Dec 2020
What happens when you force some Latin fad down the throats of world scripts with little regard.
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Firefox's implementation is better and it doesn't break perso-arabic, but it *does* look really bad for Hebrew with niqqud left: firefox, right: chrome
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the firefox one looks bad inasmuch as underline looks bad for Hebrew with niqqud *anyway*, so it's less problematic. filing a chromium bug i guess
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Replying to @ManishEarth
This might have something to do with honoring versus ignoring the underline offset (and thickness) metrics in the fonts. Could also be related to the rules about how text-decorations are drawn, which are designed to avoid a single underline changing position/thickness.

Dec 3, 2020 · 7:59 PM UTC
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