Japanese/Chinese glyphs
font-variant-east-asian
Instruct the browser to use the special purpose furigana glyphs, or proportional width hanzi/kanji/hanza, or traditional Chinese glyphs, or a particular version of the JIS standard.
Ruby
To enable special furigana glyphs for use in ruby elements specify the ruby keyword.
Full width versus porportional
To choose between full-width and proportional hanzi/kanji/hanza use one of these keywords:
| full-width | Use standard full width glyphs with evenly spaced characters |
| proportional-width | Use atypical proportional width glyphs |
Traditional versus Simplified
To choose between traditional and simplified Chinese hanzi use one of these keywords:
| traditional | Use traditional Chinese hanzi |
| simplified | Use simplified Chinese hanzi |
Choose JIS codepoint standard
To choose between different versions of the JIS standard for non-Unicode codepoint definitions use one of these keywords:
| jis78 | Codepoints adhere to the JIS X 0208:1978 standard |
| jis83 | Codepoints adhere to the JIS X 0208:1983 standard |
| jis90 | Codepoints adhere to the JIS X 0208:1990 standard |
| jis04 | Codepoints adhere to the JIS X 0213:2004 standard |
Examples
/* furigana */
ruby, rb, rp, rt, rtc {
font-variant-east-asian: ruby;
}
/* Use non-standard proportional width glyphs */
html {
font-variant-east-asian: proportional-width;
}