Also with LESS we would be able to substitute the font variables on a
per language basis with a little tweaking. This is pretty trivial to
do and I'd suggest a reactionary approach.

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Mar 3, 2014 4:58 PM, "Ryan Kaldari" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Yes, we only looked at Latin fonts. We are working on an FAQ, however,
>> that
>> > explains how wikis that use non-Latin scripts can specify their own font
>> > stack using MediaWiki:Vector.css.
>> >
>> > Ryan Kaldari
>> >
>>
>> I dont think users should be responsible for that sort of thing. Could we
>> do per-language css and only do this on en/other known good languages if we
>> know that its going to be a bad choice for some languages?
>>
>
> There are only a couple of languages in which we know this stack will be a
> "bad choice" (so far, Navajo and Vietnamese). In most languages that use
> non-Latin scripts, the font-family declaration will have little or no
> effect, but the readability will be improved by increasing the leading and
> font-size. Specifically the existing small leading is often a problem for
> Indic scripts and the existing small font-size is often a problem for
> logographic scripts.
>
> Ryan Kaldari
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