That would be our last resort. More likely, we'll find suitable uniform ones.
May I ask if it will be possible to display them everywhere when using Macedonian as interface language, or just on our wiki? Cheers, Bojan On 29 January 2016 at 15:31, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > You can use an existing freely licensed font as a base and only change the > characters that need to differ. This is a better approach as it allows for > the use of the font in other circumstances as well. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On 29 January 2016 at 13:47, Bojan Jankuloski <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello. >> >> Thanks for looking into the matter. We will now contact the leading font >> designer in Macedonia, and will consult him about a free font that is >> suitable visually, i.e.that does not look that different from the present >> italics. >> >> By the way, can we make only the italics use this font, or is it a >> technical necessity that it must affect all text on the wiki? >> >> Thanks a lot again >> Bojan >> >> On 29 January 2016 at 08:05, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hoi, >>> The obvious solution is in using fonts that work properly for a language >>> as it is possible to use a font based on the language code used for a text >>> (standard MediaWiki functionality). >>> >>> It is therefore only a matter of using the right font and almost >>> everything will be good. >>> >>> The obvious question is, is there a freely licensed font that can be >>> used. >>> Thanks, >>> GerardM >>> >>> On 28 January 2016 at 18:32, Bojan Jankuloski < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I writing to you by recoomendation of Andre Klapper >>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AKlapper_(WMF)> about the issue, >>>> and he said that I should ask The Language Engineering team about the issue >>>> I wrote about. >>>> >>>> I am writing as a bureaucrat of mk.wiki on the suggestion of other >>>> active editors and admins who feel that there is one issue that needs >>>> addressing on our wiki. >>>> Namely, that is the italics, whenever we use them. Unicode >>>> automatically shows the East Slavic italics, where several letters are >>>> different than in our own (and Serbian) alphabet. See the heading >>>> Differences >>>> from other Cyrillic alphabets >>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet#Differences_from_other_Cyrillic_alphabets> >>>> in >>>> the Serbian alphabet article (the image to the right shows the >>>> differences.. The correct ones for Macedonian and Serbian are i in the >>>> rightmost, yellow column). Same applies to Macedonian, i.e. it is the same >>>> letters that are different. In the text further near the end of the >>>> section, it mentions OpenType and things I don't udnerstand. >>>> >>>> Our question, as a wiki-community is: is it possible to have something >>>> done on our wiki (something to be installed) or elsewhere, so that we will >>>> get the proper letters? I know that some free fonts support this, but I am >>>> not sure which. I am sure the Serbians will also be interested to implement >>>> this on their wiki (although their case is somewhat more complicated by the >>>> fact they use dual script on all pages). >>>> >>>> We, as a community, use different operating systems and browsers, but >>>> everyone sees the Russian-Bulgarian italics, not the Macedonian/Serbian >>>> ones. >>>> >>>> Below I have a screenshot of a test I just made for each of the >>>> letters. Here is again the table of differences >>>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Serbian_Cyrillic_Italic.svg>. >>>> The ones we want are in the rightmost (yellow) column. We are asking if it >>>> is possible for all italics to be displayed this way on the wiki. This will >>>> need some special intervention (I assume) as currently we don't have them, >>>> but the Russo-Bulgarian in stead. (See screenshot below) >>>> >>>> This applies to every OS and browser, because it is a standard by >>>> Unicode that hasn't been modified yet to introduce our letters, and so it >>>> is, by definition, impossible for us to get Maced./Serb. italics without >>>> tweaks in the wiki. Our question is: are those tweaks possible, so our >>>> italics will look like that in the yellow column. >>>> >>>> I hope there may be a solution for our community. >>>> >>>> Thank you very much, >>>> >>>> >>>> Bojan Jankuoski, >>>> User: User Bjankuloski06 / Б. Јанкулоски >>>> <https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA:Bjankuloski06> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> Бојан Јанкулоски I Bojan Jankuloski >>>> >>>> Главен програмски раководител I Chief Program Manager >>>> Споделено знаење I Shared Knowlege >>>> тел. | tel. +38978 282 698 >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mediawiki-i18n mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mediawiki-i18n mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> Бојан Јанкулоски I Bojan Jankuloski >> >> Главен програмски раководител I Chief Program Manager >> Споделено знаење I Shared Knowlege >> тел. | tel. +38978 282 698 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mediawiki-i18n mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-i18n mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n > > -- Бојан Јанкулоски I Bojan Jankuloski Главен програмски раководител I Chief Program Manager Споделено знаење I Shared Knowlege тел. | tel. +38978 282 698
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