https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24516
Summary: IPA is displayed inconsistently in different browsers
Product: Wikimedia
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
I tried reading the article [[Holam]] in the English Wikipedia in different
browsers on Windows XP anonymously. This article uses the template {{IPA}},
which displays the text in it as class="IPA".
Class IPA tries to set font-family to "Charis SIL", "Doulos SIL", Gentium,
GentiumAlt, "DejaVu Sans", Code2000, "TITUS Cyberbit Basic", "Arial Unicode
MS", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Chrysanthi Unicode". I have Charis, Doulos,
Gentium, DejaVu Sans, Code2000, Arial Unicode MS and Lucida Sans Unicode
installed. This, however, doesn't work consistently in all browsers. Here are
the results that i see:
* Firefox 3.6.7 - The font is not Charis, but probably Arial or Arial Unicode.
The display is partly faulty: the character 'ɡ' after the character 'ˈ', for
example in 'ʔesˈɡoʁ", looks like a Greek gamma (this doesn't happen on Windows
Vista).
* Firefox 4 beta 1 - Similar to Firefox 3.6.7, but even worse: The character
'ɡ' looks like it's taken from a completely different font.
* Windows Internet Explorer 8 - Seems to display IPA correctly using Charis.
* Opera 10.53 - Doesn't have the "ˈɡ" problem, but the font is not Charis.
* Google Chrome 5 - Like Opera 10.53.
* Safari 4.0.5 - The font is not Charis. The 'ɡ' is displayed like in Firefox 4
beta 1, as if it is taken from a different font, but there's no "ˈɡ" problem.
In my vector.css i defined this: ".IPA { font-family: Charis SIL !important;
}". If i log in using my username Amire80, i see IPA correctly in the Charis
font in all browsers except Opera, which still doesn't show IPA as Charis.
Anonymous users, obviously, don't have this fix and most of them probably don't
know that they see incorrect characters.
It is possible, of course, that the problem is with browsers and with Windows
XP, but it will take time until all browsers are fixed and the font display of
Windows XP is probably not going to be fixed, even though the OS will probably
stay popular for a few more years. Is it possible to fix Wikipedia's CSS to
make IPA look better despite these bugs?
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