On Apr 8, 2014 12:10 PM, "Isarra Yos" <zhorishna(a)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