https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24257
Summary: Special character menu for Vector skin
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Page editing
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
In the "Special characters" menu of the Vector skin, there are only special
characters for Latin, Latin-extended, IPA, Symbols, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew,
Bangla, Telugu, Sinhala and Gujarati. Why these? I have written articles about
things related to South-East Asia, so I would have liked to have seen also
Thai, Lao, and Cambodian script be available in this menu. It also puzzles me
that you have chosen to include four Indic scripts, but have not chosen
Devanagari which is used to write Hindi, the official language of India.
It also strikes me as a weakness to sort the Latin characters alphabetically
and to divide them into the two arbitrarily defined Unicode categories: Latin
and Latin-extended. It would probably be better for users if the characters
were divided into language subsets, or something similar alike, so that, for
instance, a person wanting to write Vietnamese could go to the Vietnamese
subsection and find all the characters needed to write Vietnamese there, rather
than having to switch back and forth between the two categories Latin and
Latin-extended.
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