Broken third tone mark on Google Chrome / Windows 10

[pdg137]

The third tone mark (for example in jǔ) is offset strangely to the right under Google Chrome / Windows 10 and possibly other platforms. For an example, see 举.

[fifieldt]

Did some checking:

• Chrome under Ubuntu works fine
• Chrome under windows 7 with the Chinese language pack works fine
• Internet explorer under windows 7 with Chinese language pack works fine
• Chrome 39.0.2171.95 Windows 2008 R2 works fine

So this may be a Windows 10 thing - now to find a windows 10 box to test.

[pdg137]

This seems to be specific to Verdana, Windows 10, and Chrome. See this jsfiddle test page...

[pdg137]

I reported the issue to Google.

[fifieldt]

Confirmed in Chrome 51.0.2704.63 under windows 10

[fifieldt]

Also in 51.0.2704.79

[fifieldt]

This is still an issue in Chrome 59.0.3071.86 (32bit) under Windows 10.

[pdg137]

Still an issue in Version 69.0.3497.81 (Official Build) (64-bit)! Should we switch to another font? Source Sans Pro looks nice to me and handles the tone marks well, but we'd have to serve it locally or mirror it since fonts.googleapis.com is blocked in China.

[pdg137]

Switched to Noto Sans Display:

Users in China will continue to get Verdana unless we serve the font locally.