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Fonts: the web build embeds craft-fonts' Thai face, so Thai text no longer shows boxes - #4565

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In wordcraft-web 0.11.0 every Thai document draws as boxes. A browser can't read the system's fonts without asking, and the web build keeps only the Georgian craft-fonts face (#3888). The release zip ships OFL-noto-sans-thai.txt, but the .wasm has no Thai face: its font name tables carry Noto Sans Georgian and nothing for Noto Sans Thai.

Noto Sans Thai is 218,652 bytes, about the size of the Georgian face (231,988), so this change embeds it too:

  • crates/fonts/src/web_fonts.rs (new): WEB_SCRIPTS = ["Geor", "Thai"] and embed_on_web(scripts). build.rs includes this file (#[path]) to filter the manifest, and the crate's own tests check it, so the list is tested without a wasm build.
  • crates/fonts/build.rs: the wasm filter calls embed_on_web instead of matching "Geor" inline; the module doc names both faces.
  • ROADMAP.md: progress log row, status line and revision history.

Once embedded, the Thai face falls back exactly as on the desktop: FontDb::with_font_dirs already loads every non-Japanese craft-fonts face, and fallback_for finds it for Thai characters (the thai_bundled check in fontdb tests covers this).

Native builds don't change. The Japanese (4.7 MB) and Chinese (16 MB) faces stay out of the web build. #1245 and #4520 cover Chinese interface text in the web build; this PR only adds Thai.

This makes Thai readable, not metric-compatible. Thai documents usually ask for TH Sarabun New or TH SarabunPSK, and Noto Sans Thai is about 1.45× wider at the same size, so pages still break differently until the user adds the requested font (Add Font works in the browser and is kept in IndexedDB).

How it was found

I tested the official wordcraft-web-0.11.0.zip (served locally) with a Thai government memo set in TH SarabunPSK:

  • With no fonts added, every Thai character drew as a box and the one-page memo became two pages.
  • After adding TH SarabunPSK with Add Font, the memo drew correctly on one page.
  • Load System Installed Fonts couldn't be tried: that browser denies the Local Font Access permission.

Tests

  • web_fonts::tests::web_builds_embed_the_georgian_and_thai_faces_only: Georgian and Thai lines are kept, including with spaces and when Thai is one of several scripts; the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic and symbol lines are dropped.
  • cargo test -p wordcraft-fonts --lib: 98 passed.
  • cargo clippy -p wordcraft-fonts --all-targets -- -D warnings (this lints build.rs too) and cargo fmt --all -- --check pass.
  • Not run locally: a wasm build with CRAFT_FONTS_DIR, since this machine has no wasm32-unknown-unknown target. The wasm step in CI builds the crate; the release workflow (web-craft-fonts: true) is where the face gets embedded.

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  • New Features
    • Web-built documents now include embedded fonts for Arabic, Georgian, and Thai text, improving rendering when matching system fonts are unavailable. Georgian interface text remains supported.

…onger shows boxes

A browser can't read the system's fonts without asking, and the web build kept
only the Georgian craft-fonts face (storytold#3888), so every Thai document drew as boxes
in wordcraft-web 0.11.0. Noto Sans Thai is about 220 KB, the size of the
Georgian face; it now joins it. The list lives in crates/fonts/src/web_fonts.rs,
which build.rs includes and the crate tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The wasm build now selects fonts through a script filter that accepts Arab, Geor, and Thai. Tests cover the filter. The roadmap records Thai web-font updates and a layout.fitOnePage revision.

Changes: Web Font Selection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Define and test the web script filter
crates/fonts/src/web_fonts.rs, crates/fonts/src/lib.rs
The filter accepts comma-separated Arab, Geor, and Thai script codes after trimming whitespace. Tests cover matching, mixed, nonmatching, and empty inputs. The module is included in test builds.
Apply the filter in the wasm build
crates/fonts/build.rs, ROADMAP.md
The wasm build uses the filter to select fonts. Build documentation describes Georgian interface and Thai document fonts. The roadmap records Thai rendering notes and a layout.fitOnePage revision.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: aiongg, tareq-halaby

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to de810

The web build will embed Noto Sans Thai alongside the existing Arabic and Georgian faces, so Thai text no longer shows as boxes. Native builds are unchanged. No merge-blocking risk was found; the only cost is a wasm size increase of about 212 KiB.

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The title names the main change: the web build now embeds the craft-fonts Thai face so Thai text no longer renders as boxes. The raw summary confirms a web_fonts filter selecting Arab, Geor, and Thai entries, wired into build.rs. The PR objectives describe the same Noto Sans Thai embedding goal. The title is specific and accurate, though it is somewhat long at 86 characters.

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ReviewerA — source-read COMMENT (not an approval)

I read the diff: the web build embeds craft-fonts' Thai face so Thai text no longer shows boxes. crates/fonts/build.rs now keeps the Thai document face for wasm32 builds beside the Georgian interface face (the comment gives about 230 KB for the Georgian one, and the ROADMAP row says the Noto Sans Thai face is about 220 KB), and the ROADMAP gets the progress-log and trivial-change rows the repository requires. It is the same decision as gridcraft#2827 and pdfcraft#4167 for other scripts, with the same trade-off: the web download grows, and the repository sets a size budget (the Japanese face at 4.7 MB is excluded for that reason). The face comes from craft-fonts, where its provenance (SIL OFL) is recorded, and I did not open that. Shaping of Thai marks needs the text engine's complex-script support, so a screenshot of a Thai word with tone marks is the evidence that the glyphs combine and do not just draw. The "Last updated" line has changed in the ROADMAP header: that line conflicts on nearly every PR. I have not run it, and no exact-head CI result exists for this head. Nothing was run.

I ran nothing and have no exact-head CI result for this PR, so this is not an approval. Where a diff was long I read its code hunks rather than every generated or documentation line.

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pakiat commented Nov 1, 2026

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Thanks. I built the web app at this head (8bc6ec9f) and at the main it merges (6e0f7e79), both with trunk build --release (trunk 0.22.1, rustc 1.99.1) and craft-fonts at the pinned b076417b, as release.yml does. Then I typed the same Thai text into a blank document in each, in a browser with no Thai font loaded:

ภาษาไทย น้ำ ที่นี่ ป้าย ปู่ ญี่ปุ่น กิ๊ก ฤๅษี

  • main: every Thai character is a box.
  • This PR: the text draws in Noto Sans Thai, and the marks combine. The tone marks sit above the upper vowels (ที่, นี่, ญี่) and above the consonant in น้ำ, ปู่ and ปุ่น. Over the tall ป in ป้าย the tone mark shifts left. The ไม้ตรี in กิ๊ก stacks on the sara i. The image below shows both builds.
Top: main web build, Thai shows as boxes. Bottom: this PR, Thai drawn in Noto Sans Thai with its marks

Size: the .wasm grows from 46,803,306 to 47,020,818 bytes, 217,512 bytes (212 KiB) more. That is the Noto Sans Thai face the ROADMAP row gives as about 220 KB. The .js is the same in both builds.

On the "Last updated" line: noted. It does conflict on most PRs, so if main moves before a merge I'll merge main into the branch and keep its date.

main started keeping the Arabic and Georgian interface faces in the web build in build.rs; that is now the Arab entry of web_fonts::WEB_SCRIPTS, beside Georgian and Thai, and its test.

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I've merged main into the branch (de810ce). main started keeping the Arabic interface faces in the web build in build.rs; that is now the Arab entry of web_fonts::WEB_SCRIPTS, beside Georgian and Thai, and its test says so.

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