Hoi, Given that we should be moving forward not backward, it makes more sense to provide Unicode 5.1 characters and webfonts.
The big thing of MediaWiki was that it supported Unicode when this was still a new thing to do. We should support the latest and the best Unicode support.
NB this is not an issue that is problematic for Malayam alone. Another script that was updated was Devanagari ... used for Hindi for instance.. We have a request for support for fonts for the Ge'ez script ... used for Amharic and a few others. Thanks, GerardM
2009/12/1 Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org
Praveen Prakash wrote:
Currently Windows 7 is the only operating system which supports Unicode 5.1.0. (? according to my knowledge), but lot of third-party tools for writing and reading Malayalam supports new version.
So do you want everything to be converted to the Unicode 5.0 version, including page titles, namespaces and article content, and for Unicode 5.1 characters sent by browsers during editing to be converted to Unicode 5.0 before storage? We can probably set that up.
-- Tim Starling
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