Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> Praveen Prakash wrote:
>> If so, why did such extensions add to mediawiki sites without proper 
>> testing? If it happened to Malayalam, it has problem with all Indic 
>> languages, Arabic, Chinese etc.
>
> Yeah, someone should update it to have better multilanguage support. 
> But if no active developers are familiar with the code, this may take 
> some effort (patches welcome).  Also, I seem to recall (several years 
> ago, back when I last heard someone complain about this) that the big 
> problem is not in EasyTimeline itself, but in the third-party software 
> which it uses to render the images.  Thus, MediaWiki developers might 
> not be able to fix the problem on their own at all.

I suspect that the problem on bug 6776 is just that the appropiate font
isn't installed on Wikimedia servers / the font used to render timelines
doesn't support that unicode section, not that the timeline extension
itself has any issues with Malayalam characters.


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