https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51102
--- Comment #2 from Pau Giner <[email protected]> --- The option you mention was considered, and finally discarded from the ULS designs for the following reasons: * Added unnecessary complexity for the general usecase: Adjusting fonts for content and UI languages is the main usecase for web fonts. We allow the user to "select a font for language X". On the one hand, if we add an option to "Disable web fonts", that requires the user to have some understanding of what web font technology is (which is harder than input methods, since web fonts is more invisible for the user). On the other hand, if we add something along the lines of "Use system fonts for other languages", users need to understand the context of this option (i.e., that mixed-language content is possible and the user is deciding to not get help for displaying it). This also introduces a problem about whether to invalidate the previous web font selections for other languages or not. * Users were likely to have expressed their preference before. Users that need to disable the provided web font for a language (because they installed a font for it) or those who know the script with enough detail to have a different preferred font, are likely to also participate in contexts where these languages are either the main content or UI languages. Thus, font issues are more likely to appear (and be fixed) in such contexts. Since font preferences are persisted, they are applied the next time a language appears, making the need to change language of mixed-language content a less common case. We acknowledge that there is an edge case which is not covered, but the decision was not to cover it in order to avoid adding complexity to the general usecase. Having said that, there are many different languages, projects and contexts, so feel free to provide a more specific description of the context where the lack of the requested feature becomes problematic for users, so that we can better understand the specific problem. -- 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
