Ilmari Karonen wrote:
Praveen Prakash wrote:
If so, why did such extensions add to mediawiki sites without proper testing? If it happened to Malayalam, it has problem with all Indic languages, Arabic, Chinese etc.
Yeah, someone should update it to have better multilanguage support. But if no active developers are familiar with the code, this may take some effort (patches welcome). Also, I seem to recall (several years ago, back when I last heard someone complain about this) that the big problem is not in EasyTimeline itself, but in the third-party software which it uses to render the images. Thus, MediaWiki developers might not be able to fix the problem on their own at all.
I suspect that the problem on bug 6776 is just that the appropiate font isn't installed on Wikimedia servers / the font used to render timelines doesn't support that unicode section, not that the timeline extension itself has any issues with Malayalam characters.