Here are some testcases:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – normal English, no lang
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – en (std) English, with lang
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – en-Latn (silly) English, redundant -Latn
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – az-Latn (std) Azerbaijani
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – sr-Latn (std) Serbian
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – uz-Latn (std) Uzbek
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – yi-Latn (std) Yiddish
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – he-Latn (expected) Hebrew
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – zn-Latn (expected) Chinese
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – ja-Latn (expected) Japanese
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – ko-Latn (expected) Korean
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – am-Latn (expected) Amharic
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – ta-Latn (expected) Tamil
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – te-Latn (expected) Telugu
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – pa-Latn (expected) Punjabi
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – ar-Latn (expected) Arabic
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – ar-LB-Latn (expected) Arabic, Lebanese
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – sa-Latn (expected) Sanskrit
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – ka-Latn (expected) Georgian
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – el-Latn (expected) Greek
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet – ru-Latn (expected) Russian
Results:
- Lynx 2.8.8rel.2, Mac OS X 10.10.5 (text only) – All displayed
perfectly.
- Fire Fox 39.0.2, Mac OS X 10.10.5: All normal except Sanskrit and
Tamil slightly smaller, and a couple seem to need line-height tweaks, but
it won't matter if embeded in other text.
- ChromOS 28.0.1484.1 (Developer Build 195382), Platform 4028.9.2013_04_20_1746 (Developer Build - hexxeh) All
perfect.
- Chrome 45.0.2454.85 (64-bit), Mac OS X 10.10.5 – All
perfect.
- Chromium 46.0.2486.0 (64-bit), Mac OS X 10.10.5 – All
perfect.
- Safari 8.0.8 (10600.8.9), Mac OS X 10.10.5 – All perfect.
- Chromium 43.0.2357.81, Ubunto 15.04 (64-bit) Linux rev37.0 – All perfect.
- Firefox 37.0, Ubuntu 15.04 – All redable and spaced properly, but some switch from default (in that browser) serif to sans-serif (includin Amharic, Tmail, Telugu, Punjabi, Arabic, Sanskrit, and Georgian); should be easily fixed inheriting style from previous element.
- Firefox 31.4.0, CentOS 7.1.1503 (Core), KDA 4.10.5 – All perfect.
- Konqueror 4.10.5, CentOS 7.1.1503 – All perfect.
- Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702, Windows XP Pro 2000 SP3 – All perfect.
- Newer Windows: forthcoming (VM is corrput; needs re-install).