https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29005
Santhosh Thottingal <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|Normal |Low Severity|normal |minor --- Comment #6 from Santhosh Thottingal <[email protected]> 2011-05-22 16:13:58 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > Chillu characters from unicode 5.1 is not affected by those chromium and > safari > bugs. Current script converts characters not affected by the bug to those > affected by the bug. Let us not mix the chromium bug and an optional feature of webfonts. > I think Malayalm Wikipedia not using WebFonts yet, besides > Malayalam Wikipedia, there may be many other implementations to Mediawiki. I > wonder how this can help interlinking by copy-pasting the titles there. Webfonts is an _extension_ .For mediawiki instances outside wikipedia, one can decide whether it should be installed, enabled or not. If installed, a user can disable it completely using user preference screen. Or temporarily using the menu. The extension is configurable and one can completely remove the normalization rules. one can use their own fonts. And it is well documented. see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebFonts So whether the rules are necessary for an instance is upto the admin of the wiki. > You may > use these fonts created by Junaid P V > (https://github.com/junaidpv/Malayalam-Fonts/archives/master) with new chillu > character, which contains all fonts listed here. We cannot and we should not use unofficial fonts from random location. Those fonts are not even a fork or maintained by typography experts. If somebody report a bug in font, I need to contact typographers and for that I should use official, upstream fonts. Anjali Old Lipi font has dual encoding implemented, the upstream version from varamozhi project is already added to webfonts. And that is the default font. > I am not sure about working of WebFonts from mobile devices but none of those > from Apple, including iOS not supporting old encoding. It is important because > day by day traffic through them are increasing. It is a separate topic altogether. If mobile devices have broken rendering, it is bug with them. Srilanka is not going to change their country name if mobile names does not render it properly when written in Sinhala or the traffic is less for Sinhala wikipedia. But mobile phones will fix the bug. Also note that, there is nothing called old encoding. Old encoding means old data. There is no concept of old data and new data. it is just data. Dual encoding of Malayalam is very complicated and serious issue and cannot be solved by webfonts. We discussed this during the language committee meeting and we are trying to find a solution for that. And please don't bring that chillu discussion here, we had enough of them :) -- 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
