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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
