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3440529 - When Working With Hebrew, Thai, Japanese - Numbers and Symbols are in BOLD in Performance Form title

Symptom

When opening a Performance Form in Hebrew, Thai, Japanese, numbers and symbols are thicker compared to the rest of the text in the Performance from title.

Image/data in this KBA is from SAP internal systems, sample data, or demo systems. Any resemblance to real data is purely coincidental.

Environment

  • SAP SuccessFactors Performance Management
  • SAP SuccessFactors 360 Reviews

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Have Hebrew, Thai, Japanese enabled as locales in your instance.
  2. Create a Performance Form.
  3. Open the Performance Form.
  4. Numbers and symbols are thicker compared to the rest of the text in the Performance from title.

Cause

The bold typeface of the official SAP font named "72" is only supporting Windows Glyph List languages which include Latin letters, Greek and Cyrillic letters but not Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew or Thai characters. Therefore, it is not the numbers/symbols that are wrongly in bold but rather the rest of the characters that are too thin in comparison, since the typeface has not been designed to support them.

See for reference: https://experience.sap.com/fiori-design-web/typography/#typography-with-72

Resolution

This is expected behavior. If you think a change in the behavior would be useful for your business, you can share your ideas via Customer Influence Portal for our Product Management team to review it. Once you have submitted your idea, other customers and partners can vote for it and your votes help us to prioritize ideas that we will consider for upcoming product releases.

2090228 - How to Submit Ideas for SAP SuccessFactors Products

See Also

WGL4.0 Character Set - Typography | Microsoft Learn

https://experience.sap.com/fiori-design-web/typography/#typography-with-72

Keywords

font, Hebrew, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, numbers, characters, symbols, bold, typeface, form title, Performance form, PM form, Windows Glyph List, Glyph List , KBA , LOD-SF-PM-FRM , Forms & Templates , LOD-SF-MTR-FRM , Forms and Templates , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Performance & Goals 2311