Changeset comments show italics for non-Latin scripts

[fqdb]

1. There are not supposed to be italic Chinese characters, and probably the same goes for the majority of non-Latin scripts
2. It's extremely difficult to read, especially because it breaks anti-aliasing in some browsers
3. At least in my experience even the Latin italics are less legible than normal text, not sure why this was changed at all.

[tomhughes]

Well you will find the history in #580 and #2838.

[schuetzm]

Maybe the font-synthesis property [1] would help here? But it seems it's still a proposal only supported by FF and Safari, and could have the side-effect of disabling italics with some Latin fonts, too.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-synthesis

[HolgerJeromin]

I really like font-synthesis. Here we have the relevent issue in chromium for missing support in Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi, Opera https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=509989

[Dimitar5555]

As a partial workaround, you can set a custom font for specific alphabets via Firefox's preferences and force websites to use it. You can't fine tune it to a specific website, but it's better than nothing and makes the text a lot more readable.

[AntonKhorev]

Italics replaced with larger font in #4813.