https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16697
--- Comment #11 from Andrew Cunningham <[email protected]> 2008-12-20 06:04:01 UTC --- For ln.wikipedia.org current css rules controlling font display would be #content, #bodyContent { font-family:'DejaVu Sans','Segoe UI','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',Tahoma,'Arial Unicode MS','Lucida Sans',Verdana,sans-serif; } Taking each font in turn: DejaVu Sans - OK for Lingala Segoe UI - I'd need to test, should be ok, but Vista font Lucinda Sans Unicode - cannot correctly render all Lingala characters, no mark, makmk OpenType features Lucinda Grande - Mac OS font, don't know if this supports Lingala or not, would need to test. Tahoma - version 3.0.6 (on WinXP) does not support Lingala, Version 5.0 may support Lingala, would need to test. Arial Unicode MS - cannot correctly render all Lingala characters, no mark, makmk OpenType features Lucinda Sans - support for lingala unknown Verdana - version 3.0.6 (on WinXP) does not support Lingala, Version 5.0 may support Lingala, would need to test. General rule of thumb for CSS font family fallback choose most appropriate non-core fonts first, then fall back to core OS fonts So a rule like #content, #bodyContent { font-family:'DejaVu Sans','Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,sans-serif; } would be better Although best would be to add other download able fonts suitable for African languages: #content, #bodyContent { font-family:'DejaVu Sans','Charis SIL','Gentium Book Basic','Liberation Sans','Doulos SIL','African Sans serif','African Sans','Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,sans-serif; } depending on Tahoma and Verdana v. 5.0 support for Lingala, i'd be tempted to strip these from the CSS rules, may or maynot help Vista users, but could cause problems for users on older windows and Mac users who have an older version of MS Office installed. Segoe UI and Lucinda Grande. Would need to test these when i'm back in the Office on Monday. Also I likes using monospaced fonts for textareas, and i find its sueful to explicity state font rules for the textarea element, so #content, #bodyContent, textarea { font-family:'DejaVu Sans','Charis SIL','Gentium Book Basic','Liberation Sans','Doulos SIL','African Sans serif','African Sans','Segoe UI','Lucida Grande',Tahoma,Verdana,sans-serif; } might work better. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
