On Apr 8, 2014 12:10 PM, "Isarra Yos" zhorishna@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/04/14 06:57, S Page wrote:
In https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124475/ (go back to sans-serif) Legoktm claims "There was a consensus that listing only non-free fonts
was
not acceptable", that's not my recollection. Was a bug ever filed?
Kaldari valiantly tried to put non-free fonts first, that caused bug 63512. Now as I understand it, we're back to:
- Mac users get Helvetica Neue
- Windows users get Arial unless they have Helvetica Neue (unlikely) or
Helvetica (I can't reproduce bug 63662)
- Linux users get whatever F/OSS font fontconfig supplies for the
well-known string "Helvetica", I get Nimbus Sans L
- Android users ?? (Nobody responded.)
Linux often gets arial. Anyone with wine will probably have it installed,
too, and most will have wine even if they don't use it. It's not necessarily a particularly good copy, either.
I have wine. However firefox on my linux seems to think Nimbus sans is a good match for helvetica and displays that. Arial would look much better.
(This is just an aside, if it was only me having font issues, i would suck it up and get over it. Im concerned with the larger context)
--bawolff