Hoi,
At the Hackathon several problems were found that have to with web
fonts and input methods. They were discussed with a Red Hat engineer
and entered in the Red Hat Bugzilla. when Red Hat was the maintainer
(Lohit font for instance).
In the last two days we have been at CDAC and at Red Hat India (Pune).
We may send the inscript keyboard mappings we have defined and the
Lohit font to CDAC for verification. We have discussed the use of the
next generation of inscript keyboard mappings.
At Red Hat we discussed supporting Indic languages, in particular the
official languages of India but also the others. We went through our
choices for fonts and input methods with their language specialists.
We are happy to work together on these issues and, we will need our
language support teams to help us with the technology we may share
with Red Hat to support our languages.
When it comes to WebFonts, out bottom line is that we intent to
support any system that is technically able to support WebFonts by
default. They are not just desktops and laptops but also mobiles and
slates. We are open to any technical solution that will get a readable
and acceptable result. At that we found that there are not only issues
with Tamil.
We intend to release WebFonts on December 12th and our highest
priority is that our communities are not only aware of this, but also
help us establishing the status quo for WebFonts for their language
and help us determine how to deal with any and all issues.
The bottom line is; a language has to be able to be read in the proper
orthography in the latest version of Unicode on any device that is
able to show the fonts for a particular language. We need to establish
this and we will ask you to test again when the WebFonts configuration
is changed for your language.
Thanks in advance,
Thanks GerardM
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Language_support_team
On 24 November 2011 22:20, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 20:53, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> So, if I'm understanding the issue correctly, the open source font in
>> Tamil is inferior to the proprietary font that many users have
>> installed, correct?
>
> Exactly.
>
>>
>> I recall brief discussion about this at the
>> hackathon, but I don't remember the answer:
>
> The agreed answer was to improve Lohit-Tamil and fix issues before using it
> on Webfonts instead of getting to develop/use preferences which Tamil
> community originally suggested. Fixing issues is good in the sense,
> mediawiki / wikipedians dont just consume opensource, they contribute back,
> but realistically might take little longer. I am willing to help, just that
> I need to learn and do things :)
>
>>
>> Is it possible to
>> implement the font delivery in such a way that the superior
>> proprietary fonts are specified as preferred, and the inferior open
>> source fonts are specified as fallback, so that users who have the
>> superior fonts installed will not see any change?
>
> As per Santhosh, "Spying the system" is not possible currently and hence we
> cant know that there are fonts on the system, leave alone checking if they
> are superior. I was wondering if this requirement can go into HTML5 if it
> makes sense / feasible, but thats a long way out.
>>
>> (NB - as Siebrand noted, the i18n folks are traveling right now, so it
>> may take a few days to continue this conversation with everyone
>> involved.)
>
> We shall wait :)
>
> --
> Regards
> Srikanth.L
>
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