https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24257
--- Comment #1 from Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> 2010-07-15 20:01:48 UTC --- (In reply to comment #0) > 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. > We included the alphabets we got from the community. If you can provide me with the Thai, Lao, Cambodian and Devanagari alphabets, please do, and I'll add them. > It also strikes me as a weakness to sort the Latin characters alphabetically How is alphabetic sorting bad? It helps people find characters, right? > 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. It's true that there's languages that use a mix of both, which makes this distinction kind of annoying, so that's worth looking into. However, creating separate categories for each language would 1) clutter the left menu spectacularly and 2) duplicate characters in lots of places -- 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
