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Fwd: [Mediawiki-i18n] Betawiki staff thank you and season greetings

Hoi, Siebrand did send this e-mail today. We REALLY want to see African languages do better and maybe this is an incentive to help us see 2008 go out with a

Re: Supporting Lingala characters

I suppose the way forward for wikipedia in general is to divorce their existing css from font declarations. Have font declarations based on langauge, then

Re: Supporting Lingala characters

2008/12/20 Gerard Meijssen ... Yes two very distinct issues. I'm not sure a generic solution for MediaWiki is possible. The first

Re: Supporting Lingala characters

Hoi, There are two distinct issues; MediaWiki and the ln.wikipedia.org. When we do not fix this issue for MediaWiki, we still have a halve arsed solution;

Re: Supporting Lingala characters

2008/12/20 Andrew Cunningham ... although Code2000 is not an opensourc font, its a shareware font African Sans Serif and African Serif

Re: Supporting Lingala characters

2008/12/20 Jon Harald Søby ... Or any of the fonts available under the Open Font License, e.g. Andika Basic, Charis SIL, Doulos SIL,

Re: Supporting Lingala characters

2008/12/20 Andrew Cunningham ... The DejaVu font family will almost certainly show up correctly - at least that's what I use as

Re: Supporting Lingala characters

Hi Gerard, two more things. 1) could you tell me which service pack you are running on Windows XP. If you dond't kow, use the run command and type in the

Re: Supporting Lingala characters

Hi Gerard, for the short term for ln.wikipedia.org, I'd use Firefox and the Stylish add in and add the following site specific rule to stylish: @namespace

Re: Supporting Lingala characters

It is a CSS issue, the CSS for the Wiki needs to altered so that both the pages themselves and the edit mode display correctly in each browser. Assuming a