Clearer Chinese Sites - w/ MS JhengHei/YaHei Fonts

Clearer Chinese Sites - w/ MS JhengHei/YaHei Fonts
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By dsiu.
Created Jun 18 2009, last updated Sep 04 2009.
17 installs this week, 578 total.

This style forces any specific Chinese sites to use Microsoft JhengHei / Yahei font regardless of the site css . Firefox has a setting for specifying font for web page encoding but the setting is overridden by site specific css.

Why need this:

On Windows prior to Vista (XP / 2000), the default font for traditional / simplified Chinese is MingLiu (細明體) / SimHei (黑体) which looks very edgy and not very too legit, not the mention that they ain't clear type (ie: doesn't take advantage of sub-pixel rendering on LCD monitors)

Starting from Vista, MS has included a much better set of ClearType fonts called Microsoft JhengHei (正黑體) and YaHei (雅黑体) as default fonts for traditional / simplified Chinese. XP user can download and those fonts from Micorsoft:

MS JhengHei - http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?familyid=87E726A9-5C79-4A73-9347-78A557314D0B&displaylang=en
MS YaHei - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b15774c0-5b42-48b4-8ba8-9293fdc72099&displaylang=en

See also:
Use Microsoft Yahei (雅黑体) Font for all site (http://userstyles.org/styles/24831)
Use Microsoft JhengHei (正黑體) Font for all site (http://userstyles.org/styles/24831)

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