On 4/7/14, Steven Walling <steven.wall...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> No you don't get more consistency by moving back to an experience >> where you let the browser determine fonts. However you do get a >> situation where things are more likely to work for non-latin scripts >> (and other issues that have been brought up, if I understand >> correctly). Consistency and actually working for all scripts are >> separate goals. If you can't satisfy both, you're going to have to >> make one take higher priority than the other. I personally consider >> the "Actually working for all languages" to be much more important >> consideration than consistency. >> > > I totally agree. I don't see how there is any indication this is > functionally broken or a major regression across languages, keeping in mind > the necessity of ULS et al still. What major language-related bugs have > been raised that would not be present regardless for most default > sans-serifs? > > I see some cases, such as CJK, where users may not prefer the serif > headings, since serifs look closer to a brush script in those languages > than they do in Latin languages. That doesn't seem to be what we're > discussing though? When it comes to the body font settings and language > support, we've been able to remove some local overrides. Some others, like > Persian, had Common.css overrides long before the new version was released. > The general state of affairs before *and* after is that there aren't > great-looking, freely-licensed fonts with support across all languages and > which are widely installed on our most popular OS/device combos. We're > making incremental improvements here. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
I don't speak any non-latin languages, so I'm not competent to judge. I based my comment on a large number of complaints I'm seeing. Including Erwin Dokter's email earlier in this thread, and comments on wiki like: "I really really hate it. New fonts are really awful for non-latin languages." [1] [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Village_pump&oldid=120885231#Changes_to_the_default_site_typography_coming_soon --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
