On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Erwin Dokter <er...@darcoury.nl> wrote:

> On 08-04-2014 00:45, Steven Walling wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I noticed from Kaldari's notes [1] that "Open sans" was rejected based
>>> on language support and install base.
>>>
>> >
>
>> A similar example is Google's Noto font (
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts). It has basically no default
>> install base that I'm aware of, but it's focused on readability in as many
>> scripts as possible and is Apache-licensed.
>>
>
> Noto is useless without a suitable localization mechanism.
>

Erwin, can you help me understand what is a "suitable localization
mechanism"? I filed bug 59983 ("Investigate noto font as potential
replacement for diverse font families") back in January because I thought
it could help with localization, so I'd really like to grok this.

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59983
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