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Strange font issued by Internet Explorer 8
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I visited Korean Wikiquote (http://ko.wikiquote.org) in monobook skin. All text (even in editform) is rendered in serif font. I checked MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWIki:Monobook.css and found no error.

Text rendering in modern skin was OK. but problem is monobook skin. I think Internet Explorer 8 is making error in rendering.

Microsoft Developer centre peovides the manual here -> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc817574.aspx I hope this page would be helpful. Thank you!

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
OS: Windows XP

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 10:37 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-General.
• bzimport set Reference to bz18679.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
Kwj2772 created this task.May 4 2009, 1:33 PM
• bzimport added a comment.May 4 2009, 1:39 PM

herd wrote:

Does it work in "IE7" Compatability mode? does it work on other ko. projects such as http://ko.wiktionary.org/ or http://ko.wikipedia.org/ ? Is the serif font a monospace?

IE8 installs are known to sometimes have individual font selection problems/quirks, not something MediaWiki can do much about (except to add an IE8Fixes.css and explicity set every font, which doesn't even work for all problems). Most likely INVALID

shinjiman added a comment.May 4 2009, 1:54 PM

AFAIK, the IE7 Compatability mode will always set to enable when the URL is either wikimedia.org, wikipedia.de, wikipedia.org or wiktionary.org.

see res://iecompat.dll/iecompatdata.xml for the full list of websites will always using the IE7 Compability mode.

Kwj2772 added a comment.May 5 2009, 3:22 AM

I didn't change my font preferences. Korean wikipedia, wiktionary, wikisource is OK. but kowikibooks and kowikiquote seems to be *not* OK.

Edokter added a comment.Apr 29 2014, 4:28 PM

I doubt this is still an issue, as it was reported 5 years ago. Cannot reproduce.

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