This is a known limitation in Chrome [1], its because it uses GDI for writing type to screen rather than the newer DirectWrite API. They are working on it and there is just one remaining blocking bug to fix [2] before its all sorted.

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692

[2]: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=331115