https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29005
--- Comment #11 from Bawolff <bawolff...@gmail.com> 2011-05-26 05:54:19 UTC --- >Many people prefer to read the language in a particular way Please please please no one make that into a preference. We're talking about unicode code points, not background colours. The two ways of encoding the character *should* be identical to the user, they aren't - mostly due to crappy software support, but they should be [in the ideal world, well in the ideal world there wouldn't be two ways to encode a single character...]. While its a little weird for mediawiki on one end to force convert everything 5.1 encoding, spit it out, then on the js side run a regex through the entire page converting it back to the older encoding, it doesn't seem horrible if it makes it work for everyone. Anyways, going back to the original bug: *For the issue of Safari being stupid and stripping ZWJ's: Since we're doing this on the client side anyways, might I suggest that webfonts detects what browser is in use, and only normalizes like that if its using a browser that isn't broken in that way (or disables those fonts from the choice menu if they require such normalizations) *Per comment 1, I'm also unclear how this could break interlinking, since they're all normalized to one form on the mediawiki side (While I guess it could if the content language is not ml, since we only do the normalization for ml, but that seems like an edge case) -- 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 Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
