Hoi,
Would this also be a solution for the problem we have with supporting
languages like Lingala ? The standard Latin fonts do not suffice.
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/5/5 Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org>
Firefox 3.5 will be launching this summer (betas
available now!) and
will include support for downloading and using regular TrueType and
OpenType fonts referenced from a style sheet:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/@font-face
This is also supported in Safari 3.1 and later, and apparently by the
latest Opera betas as well.
It might be helpful for some language wikis to link in a free font this
way, when standard fonts supporting their script are often unavailable.
Right now on such sites there tends to be a little English link at the
top such as 'font help' leading to a page like this telling you how to
download and install a font:
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project:Font_help
Internet Explorer afaik still only supports converted embedded (EOT)
font files, which would require that we can either get our hands on an
existing .eot version of each free font, or be able to generate one
ourselves.
Note there's an old feature request with an .eot copy of a Tamil font:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2361
but we never had authorship info on the font or cross-browser support,
since .eot is only supported by IE.
-- brion
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