Thank you so much Gerard, for making the fonts available. The logo of the Sanskrit Wikisource was ready quite long ago but its been fixed y'day and its a great day for Sanskrit Wikisource to have a logo in its own language. Thanks a lot for the WMF and Wiki WebFont Department.
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hoi, > Today the Sanskrit Wikisource will get WebFonts support. The Sanskrit > Wikipedia already has it for some time and it works well for them. > > What will be different is that in the Wikisource, it will be possible to > have original texts in the script as it was of at the time of first > publication. According to the English language Wikipedia article and > according to the Omniglot website Sanskrit is written in many scripts. > > When you google for the Brahmi script, you will find several fonts that > are freely available. What is needed for us to use it in the Wikimedia > Foundation is that these fonts are freely licensed and, that they pass the > technical requirements of the Localisation team. Obviously when a font is > available in WebFonts, it is available in any wiki that has WebFonts > enabled. > Thanks, > Gerard > > > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/03/sanskrit-sources-and-scripts.html > > http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2012/03/sanskrit-wikisource-will-get-webfonts.html > > PS from my blogposts you will appreciate that there is an evolution in the > awareness of what WebFonts can do for you :) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > -- Regards, Abhiram
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