On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Erwin Dokter erwin@darcoury.nl wrote:
There is also a tracking bug [2] with plenty bugs attached, among the [3], [4] and [5]; *all* language related. Buth the bug reports and Typography talk page have plenty of screenshots.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Typography_refresh# Languages_problems [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63549 [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63720 [4] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63718 [5] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63817
3 is not language-related, it's about how some users have bad (basically knockoff) versions of Helvetica installed by HP printers or the user, which render poorly on older Windows systems. We're trying to figure out whether this is a real problem at scale, or whether the best thing to recommend is to simply turn off those fonts, since they won't render well on any site.
4 is a bug that needs to be dealt with in ULS, per Santhosh's comment at https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63718#c5
5 will be fixed per what I said in the email just before.
The one thing on the mediawiki.org Talk page we haven't fully investigated is the potential issue with inconsistent x-height in Cyrillic. We still need to figure out whether that's font specific, browser specific or what. There are no details present about what OS/font is used in that report, so we need to investigate how widely applicable the report actually is.