Last modified: 2012-11-20 08:50:50 UTC
There should be @font-face definitions for the most important fonts that supports unicode, at least for those that impacts the content language. It should also be fairly easy to extend the set with additional definitions if it is important for some specific content. A separate bug could be to identify the fonts necessary to support Wikipedia/Wiktionary. At least the Unicode-variants of the most common fonts should be available. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulfilas and http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulfila In Opera and other browsers the left column in the Wulfila article fails to render.
Created attachment 10983 [details] Screen dump to show the effect og failing fonts
Are you aware of the WebFonts extension? It can do this, but only if there are freely (in the strict sense) distributable fonts that we can use. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:WebFonts
There's a debian packages for that. see: http://packages.debian.org/sid/xfonts-intl-arabic
Note that this is about a failure in Wikipedia, but it should have a general solution in Mediawiki.
(In reply to comment #4) > Note that this is about a failure in Wikipedia, but it should have a general > solution in Mediawiki. General MediaWikis don't have this problem and it's not something that should be resolved in core. Some Wiktionaries and Wikisources already have installed WebFonts, by the way.
