Hoi,
We are in the process of getting the WebFonts extension reviewed. The first
iteration is to provide webfonts to those Wikipedias that have serious
problems with attracting their audience because of the lack of fonts on the
computers on many people's computers.
When you want to provide support for the scripts you mention, it makes equal
sense to identify the languages these fonts are to provide. That means that
it has to be coded as using templates does not scale over all our wikis.
Thanks,
GerardM
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/05/mwhack11-templates-do-not-scale-for.html
On 21 May 2011 13:08, Neil Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some of the less common languages on Wikipedia use scripts which are not
> supported by default on most operating systems. In many cases, these
> scripts may be unavailable even to native speakers of that language. The
> same applies to mathematical fonts.
>
> For example, the following languages seem to use scripts currently not
> supported by the fonts installed by default on a MacBook running MacOS
> 10.6.7:
>
> bn, bpy, kn, ml, te, am, arc, dv, km, my, si, bug, got, lo, or, as, cu, ti
>
> Other operating systems may have even fewer scripts supported.
>
> However, all of these scripts appear to have Free font support, as shown
> by their all being rendered on my Linux box, after having installed a
> variety of Free Software fonts that are part of the Debian distribution
> [see note below]. As far as I can see, none of these appear to have
> significant font-shaping issues, with only the occasional glitch in some
> languages such as Oriya.
>
> This means that, on modern browsers with both @font-face and UTF-8
> support, we should now be in a position to support all of these scripts,
> even if they are not supported by the user's installed fonts, by adding
> @font-face declarations for Free Software fonts supporting these
> scripts, and hosting these fonts on WMF servers.
>
> In addition, doing this for mathematical fonts would have immediate
> utility for all language versions of Wikipedia.
>
> Would anyone be interested in helping support this?
>
> -- Neil
>
> Note: the non-mathematical Debian font packages currently installed on
> my Linux box are as follows:
>
> ttf-alee ttf-arabeyes ttf-arhangai ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-bengali-fonts
> ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core
> ttf-dejavu-extra ttf-devanagari-fonts ttf-dustin ttf-dzongkha
> ttf-farsiweb ttf-freefont ttf-gentium ttf-gujarati-fonts
> ttf-indic-fonts ttf-junicode ttf-kacst ttf-kannada-fonts ttf-khmeros
> ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-lao ttf-liberation ttf-malayalam-fonts
> ttf-mph-2b-damase ttf-opensymbol ttf-oriya-fonts ttf-paktype
> ttf-punjabi-fonts ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-sil-abyssinica
> ttf-sil-charis ttf-sil-doulos ttf-sil-gentium ttf-sil-padauk
> ttf-sjfonts ttf-tamil-fonts ttf-telugu-fonts ttf-thai-tlwg
> ttf-thryomanes ttf-tmuni ttf-unfonts-core ttf-unifont ttf-uralic
>
>
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