[Wikipedia-l] adding a font on a wiki

[Charlotte Webb]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM, K. Peachey <p858snake at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> Currently, there is, as far as I am aware, still no solution to the
>> fact that, for example, some languages use a regular colon as a
>> letter, but the software renders this in links as an interwiki link
>> (for example, a link to [[cu:wĭ]] at links to
>> http://cu.wikipedia.org/). Some people suggested using the triangular
>> colon, but this isn't correct. Eventually, the answer was given to me
>> that this could not be considered a bug because none of the languages
>> that require this are "major", and thus there is no need for a
>> solution...
> I would submit that to the bug tracker again because that is a major
> bug and maybe something for the usability project to aim for.

You'd need to propose some alternative syntax to put an interwiki link
on a page of these sites and make sure it doesn't conflict with some
other feature on any project.

I don't mean to be cold but this is what would have to do in order to
avoid getting the same response.

—C.W.