https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33430
--- Comment #5 from Ziyuan Yao <yaoziy...@gmail.com> 2011-12-30 21:08:24 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) > Fixing this bug will probably be only a partial success. About 18 month ago we > (PediaPress) were experimenting a little bit with Japanese, but we encountered > numerous problems (text-direction, layout rules, lack of support both from the > community and our tools) that scared us off pursuing this further. Imo it will > take a lot of determination and perseverance as well as ongoing support from > native speakers/developers to create decent ebooks. First, fixing this bug alone will improve the usefulness of Chinese/Japanese ebooks from 1% to 99.9%. Second, I suggest MediaWiki reuses a mature HTML rendering engine (e.g. WebKit) or text rendering engine (e.g. Pango), instead of reinventing all the wheels again. Third, MediaWiki can for now ignore complex formatting features such as "text-direction, layout rules" and just focus on drawing plain text lines and images correctly. "Keep it simple, stupid" for the first version. -- 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
