Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Input methods extension Narayam enabled on Wikimedia Commons and more on input methods and web fonts

2011-11-24 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
Agree with Srikanth on WebFonts. We at the Tamil Wiki projects have already tried the webfonts out and found the Lohit Tamil - the font available via webFonts extension has serious readability/rendering issues in most operating systems (most except Redhat Linux). It is a big step backwards in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Input methods extension Narayam enabled on Wikimedia Commons and more on input methods and web fonts

2011-11-24 Thread Erik Moeller
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: Agree with Srikanth on WebFonts. We at the Tamil Wiki projects have already tried the webfonts out and found the Lohit Tamil - the font available via webFonts extension has serious readability/rendering issues in most

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Input methods extension Narayam enabled on Wikimedia Commons and more on input methods and web fonts

2011-11-24 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 20:53, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: So, if I'm understanding the issue correctly, the open source font in Tamil is inferior to the proprietary font that many users have installed, correct? Exactly. I recall brief discussion about this at the hackathon,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Input methods extension Narayam enabled on Wikimedia Commons and more on input methods and web fonts

2011-11-24 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, At the Hackathon several problems were found that have to with web fonts and input methods. They were discussed with a Red Hat engineer and entered in the Red Hat Bugzilla. when Red Hat was the maintainer (Lohit font for instance). In the last two days we have been at CDAC and at Red Hat