https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16697
--- Comment #17 from Andrew Cunningham <lang.supp...@gmail.com> 2008-12-21 23:49:42 UTC --- (In reply to comment #12) > The MediaWiki default is not to specify > fonts at all for any language. > Which is actually a good approach, stylesheets should be language neutral as much as possible. But there are two scenarios for content: 1) all content in a single page is monolingual - in which case all is fine 2) content is predominately in one language, but contains words, phrases, quotes from other languages - this is a more problematic scenario. Since it would require different fonts to be used to display different languages. IN most the major languages that have full OS support current approach works fine. OS font-linking/switching and browser based approaches work fine. But for lesser used languages where there is no official OS support, things become more problematic, since different fonts may need to be specified for that language as distinct form the text of the surrounding page. The easiest and simplest approach is the use of language tagging in the markup and then users can tie their own css rules to the language markup. Essentially the nature of Wikipedia content, means that the first fall back is OS and web browser fallback mechanisms, the second fall back is end user CSS overrides. For monolingual content in a language specific wiki, its possible to have some sensible CSS rules in a language specific customisations to monobook.css For content that includes words and phrases in other languages, the most sensible approach is language markup, this allows CSS rules to be created for wiki specific monobook.css or user specific CSS rules. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
