Hoi,
When the icons are internationalised, it means that for me, I am Dutch, I will find a V and a S. This suits me fine. When you have a character that is appropriate for this distinction, you use it for your language.
I post regularly on every Wikipedia and I do not use the local language of that project.
When you argue that YOU are aware / familiar with what is currently standard, it does not follow that all the readers for your project share this expertise.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 18 February 2010 16:50, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline@gmail.com> wrote:
I have reservations about this enhancement.
Introducing language specific icons for BOLD and ITALIC is not a good idea. It may make sense for the languages that use Latin script. According to me, these are some standardized icons accepted by all the language communities irrespective of the software applications that they use.
A normal computer literate is familiar with the current B and I icons available in all the word processors, text editors, and other editing tools. Most of them are aware about its use also. So changing that to a language specific icon may remove that edge. We have the tool tips for an icon to convey its usage. I think that is more than enough.
If we are changing the BOLD and ITALIC icons then we need to consider lot of other similar icons strike though. Also this move may affect the cross wiki contributions also.
Shiju Alex
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:_______________________________________________Hoi,
Yesterday there were two blogposts about improving support for your language(s) in MediaWiki ... Parul wrote about technical bits and bobs and I wrote to ask you all to help her help you..
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/02/mediawiki-seeks-to-support-your.html
Thanks,
GerardM
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