https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16697
--- Comment #23 from Andrew Cunningham <[email protected]> 2008-12-29 12:58:28 UTC --- (In reply to comment #22) > Betawiki has a gadget that allows you to cycle from monospace, to sans, to > serif. This shows that monospace breaks the usability of some of the languages > we support. The only logical conclusion is to change from monospace to an > other > style of fonts. No catch-22 for me. If something is not usable, we use > something else. > > This WILL work for Firefox, Opera and Safari. Internet Explorer and Chrome are > both currently broken; IE shows the wrong character Chrome shows no character. > For lesser used languages, this approach assumes: 1) End users have installed all language support available within the OS. Currently the only OS that I know of that installs all language support available by default is Windows Vista (maybe macOS too, don't know enough about MacOS to say). Windows XP and older versions of Widows as well as most, if not all Linux distros only install a minimal set of language support. Full language support has to be specified during the install or installed afterwards. 2) End users have downloaded and installed appropriate fonts to cover all the languages covered by Betawiki. Since lesser used languages may not be supported 3) Generic font families assume that the end user has modified the default browser generic fonts per writing script to use appropriate fonts 4) That appropriate (monospaces, serif, sans-serif) fonts are available for the language in question -- 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
