On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Nikola Smolenski <[email protected]> wrote:

> Brion Vibber wrote:
> > It might be helpful for some language wikis to link in a free font this
> > way, when standard fonts supporting their script are often unavailable.
> > Right now on such sites there tends to be a little English link at the
> > top such as 'font help' leading to a page like this telling you how to
> > download and install a font:
> > http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project:Font_help
>
> Even more helpful: MediaWiki could determine if a page uses a rare
> character upon save and link to appropriate fonts.
>
> This should be pushed to the client end I think because even the page uses
a rare character, the decision should be for the browser to load the font
and not for mediaWiki to push it. Some front end js can do the task well.
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