misskey-dev
Cyrillic characters render with too much spacing around them
💡 Summary
The font used in the web app does a very poor job of rendering Cyrillic characters.
🥰 Expected Behavior
It should render them with correct spacing.
🤬 Actual Behavior
See on the screenshot and notice how the few untranslated English strings have correct spacing:
📝 Steps to Reproduce
Set the UI language to Russian or open a post written in Russian or other language that uses the Cyrillic alphabet.
💻 Frontend Environment
* Model and OS of the device(s): macOS 13.6.4
* Browser: Vivaldi 6.5.3206.63 (Stable channel) (arm64)
* Server URL: misskey.io
* Misskey: 2024.2.0-io.2a
🛰 Backend Environment (for server admin)
* Installation Method or Hosting Service:
* Misskey:
* Node:
* PostgreSQL:
* Redis:
* OS and Architecture:
Do you want to address this bug yourself?
- [ ] Yes, I will patch the bug myself and send a pull request
one of the reason would be https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr11/ said that those character have ambiguous width.
Fonts developed by Japanese companies such as BIZ UD Gothic tend to use full-width Cyrillic characters. There are Japanese fonts such as M plus that display Cyrillic characters in half-width.
For reference of how a Cyrillic font ideally should look, macOS settings in Russian:
Improvements have been made to make the preferred font a European font (Segoe UI, Helveticaneue). If this looks good, send PR.
However, I do not own a Mac environment, so I have only been able to check this on Windows. The same thing happened on Windows, but it remains to be seen whether it will improve on the Mac.
https://github.com/ganngi-mari/misskey-ofcl/commit/743224559a88e5b8d6689cc4b940e228f3691b51
Sorry for going off-topic but I saw this exact incorrectly spaced font on a restaurant window today and it reminded me of Misskey 🙃