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Use of bad typeface by Google Chrome for Kurdish language
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Hello,

On Kurdish projects (which uses the Latin alphabet) when using Google Chrome the texts are not very visible, for example here (https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratovolkan): the letters are small and the font doesn't seem to be the right one (to see better, you can compare it to other languages by clicking on the interwikis).

To solve the problem I changed in the html page "lang=ku" by "lang=ku-latn" (https://ku.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Common.js&diff=858069&oldid=827297), the text becomes more readable but doesn't completely solve the problem.

Readability gets even worse when trying to edit it by VisualEditor: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Gotara_Harry_Potter_bi_Guhartina_D%C3%AEtbar%C3%AE.png

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This is a serious problem that has been going on for a very long time, is there anyone to at least give an opinion?

PS: Now this problem also affects Microsoft Edge.