https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20348
Volker Haas <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #1 from Volker Haas <[email protected]> 2009-08-27 15:02:13 UTC --- This issue is a little tricky. We are using Unicode fonts, unfortunately there is no single font which covers the whole unicode range. Therefore PDFs are currently rendered using up to 19 different fonts. In the case of vietnamese the result is not perfect: Many glyphs can be rendered with the regular font for the latin alphabet (DejaVuSerif), but quite a few glyphs are missing in that font. Therefore the writer switches to DejaVuSans which has these glyphs. Possible solutions: * Switch to a different main font which has a better glyph coverage. Prerequisite for that is a "font family" with a serif, sans serif and monospace font. Each of these fonts needs a better glyph coverage as the currently used DejaVu fonts. * Select different main fonts depending on the language of the wiki article. This has the consequence that a PDF containing articles from multiple wikis would have different main fonts. If e.g. vietnamese and english articles would be mixed, this might look rather odd. * ... Any thoughts on that anyone? Until there is no solution that really improves the current situation I would like to keep things as they are. I think, PDFs from the vietnamese wiki are still usable even though the font switches are not ideal and look a litte odd. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
