On Friday 14 March 2014 07:54 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
You do not understand what the existing implementation of Webfonts is
about. It is about "not serving tofu". You know, those pesky boxes that
represent a character. When tofu is served, no characters can be seen and
consequently no information can be read.
Please ask any community if this is what they want.
Thanks,
GerardM
Why would every Malayalam Wikimedians suffer webfonts because some
language in some other continent has no proper support in OSs. We will
not read that language anyhow :-). IMHO, serving webfonts by default
only for that language after consulting that community, may be the solution.
On Friday 14 March 2014 08:37 PM, Kartik Mistry wrote:
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:06 PM, praveenp <[email protected]> wrote:
..
And requirement of webfonts is also getting smaller and smaller with modern
OSs. Even today's mobile OSs have better language support than that of old
desktop OSs.
For example: My Nexus 5 with modern OS, Android Kitkat has no font for
my native language by default.
Sorry to hear that. Even my humble Samsung Galaxy Trend (Android 4.1)
has pretty good support for atleast Malayalam, Hindi and Tamil. If I
remember correctly there was two different fonts and an input method for
Malayalam available in the stock phone.
We had to wait untill service pack 2 for a decent Malayalam font while
Windows XP released.
Praveen
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