https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49934
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Bug ID: 49934
Summary: Webfonts not displaying in mobile devices
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: UniversalLanguageSelector
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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Classification: Unclassified
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Hi,
Please check the screenshots at
http://www.browserstack.com/screenshots/3b00b12cb9e6a604ebc8b227b1f4f1050f412e51
The webfonts are not getting displayed in Samsung Galaxy S II, Motorola Droid,
Razr and HTC One X
And for the devices that display web fonts, they already can display a system
font without any issue. So, there is no use of web font here. If you would like
to check a non-web font driven Tamil Unicode site, you can test my blog
http://blog.ravidreams.net
In iPad 3rd (6.0) and OS X Snow Leopard Safari 5.1, the fonts are getting
broken and scrambled. ZERO readability. Please note that they could display
system font without any issue.
For your info:
1. Older versions of iOS do not support OpenType shaping. The embedded Web
font appears to be OpenType and may not contain AAT tables. This is why the
Tamil Unicode text appeared broken.
2. In Mac OS X, OpenType support was only added in 10.7 (Lion). This is why
the text appeared broken in Snow Leopard as it does not support OpenType.
3. The best way to handle older versions of iOS and Mac OS X is to add AAT
tables alongside OpenType tables.
4. Android 4.0.x will support OpenType in the browser. Full system-wide
support for Tamil started with 4.1. For versions prior to these, whether you
have web font or not is irrelevant.
So, the case is: Is the implementation of web fonts really useful for languages
like Tamil?
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