Hi All, While testing both Lohit and Utkal has hinting problems in or wp, is that possible to keep them optional? As of now automatically the default font changes to Lohit when you open or wp, instead of that is that possible to make it optional which someone can choose the dropdown?
Subha 2011/12/16 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <[email protected]> > Praveen Prakash +1 > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:46, Praveen Prakash <[email protected]>wrote: > >> There is lot to say. But i don't want to derail this thread. Pls start >> a new thread. >> >> On 16/12/2011, Anivar Aravind <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Praveen Prakash <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> I haven't seen any communication in any open platform with Malayalam >> >> Community members about this matter. A few weeks before I had a brief >> >> discussion with Santhosh about webfonts. But it was nothing about >> >> webfonts' >> >> rendering bugs. Infact, popular (and beautiful) Malayalam fonts are >> open >> >> licensed, but there are other rendering bugs. Issue I raised was >> about an >> >> unnessessory char code change doing by webfonts which I felt a >> propaganda >> >> pushing in favor of his idea about some characters, and which need >> >> additional scripts on both client (= additional bandwidth) and server. >> But >> >> Santhosh quit the thread claiming my concerns are my pure >> imaginations. :) >> >> Naturally thread died. >> > >> > Praveen Do you mean this bug ? >> > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29005 >> > >> > The bug speaks itself . >> > >> > From a quick reading I felt what you were asking is to use not >> > properly forked font projects in webfonts, when santhosh took a stand >> > to use fonts them from upstream. >> > >> > On Normalization of characters, it is an optional feature, for >> > visibility of some chillus , that can be disabled in user settings if >> > needed. >> > It perfectly makes sense for me, since dual encoding is an issue in >> > Malayalam , and the fix need to be on Unicode . The Webfonts hack is >> > just a positive step and optional fix to ensure, people will not be >> > missed from accessing knowledge in wikipedia , based on browser >> > restrictions. >> > >> > >> > Anivar >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> I know Malayalam Wikimedian 'Vssun' tried to have an open conversation >> on >> >> Gerard's talk page, after Gerard's notice, but didn't see any >> development. >> >> As far as now I know no one, who was sure about webfonts deployment on >> ml >> >> projects. >> >> >> >> I certainly do not want webfonts in its current form in any of the >> >> Malayalam >> >> Wikiprojects. But I want to know why Malayalam is excluded from this >> >> deployment and I want to know why such a code deployed on many other >> >> wikies. >> >> >> >> I personally don't like Santhosh's enthusiasm to fly his scripts on >> >> wikimedia servers, based on his "I am correct, I am correct, I am the >> only >> >> correct" attitude. >> >> >> >> If webfonts is too bad for your language, I urge you to file a bug for >> >> removing it. >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> If you want to test something new, either make it opt in, or don't do >> >>> it live. Not on Tamil, not on Hindi, not on any Wikipedia for that >> >>> matter. >> >>> >> >>> On 12/14/11, Ravishankar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan >> >>> > <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> > >> >>> >> I dont think its appropriate to be a bit more experimental. You are >> >>> >> seeing >> >>> >> the scale in absolute sense, we are seeing it in relative sense. >> Tamil >> >>> >> Wikipedia is 7th most-viewed Tamil site. >> >>> > >> >>> > >> >>> > +1. Similar stats can be observed for most of the Indic language >> Wiki >> >>> > projects with sizable content as they are the only / major source of >> >>> > reference online for the respective languages. >> >>> > >> >>> > Ravi >> >>> > >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> Regards, >> >>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan. >> >>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. >> >>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> >>> [email protected] >> >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and >> > 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from >> > other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > >> >> >> -- >> With love >> Praveen <http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Praveenp>:talk< >> http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Praveenp> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- * ସୁ ଭ * * S u b h a * *ଓଡ଼ିଆଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ* *O d i a W i k i M a i l i n g l i s t*<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or> <http://facebook.com/subhashishp> <http://twitter.com/subhashishp><http://or.wikipedia.org>
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