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The following discussion has been moved from Wiktionary:Requests for cleanup (permalink).
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The entry contains what looks like custom, hard-coded CSS. This English entry has two comments admonishing editors not to clean it up without making sure that the fonts in the etymology and translation sections display properly. This means that the normal language/font system apparently isn't working for the contributor. I normally only do cleanup in cases where the normal system is adequate. How general is the problem in this entry? DCDuring TALK 14:21, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
- We're talking about one editor on 28 November 2013. I believe there is some discussion on the Beer Parlour or the Grease Pit about Arabic fonts being a 'disaster'. Still this is a poor solution; the edit needs reverting an Arabic fonts should be modified as a whole, not on an entry by entry basis. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:47, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
- The discussion is at MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Fonts for Arabic are disastrous. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:51, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
- The problem here is not a general problem with Arabic fonts, but specifically with the word ريال (riyāl), which by many Arabic fonts is interpreted as a currency symbol and made into a ligature. I think this is bad design on the part of the fonts (the currency symbol should only be used when inputted directly rather than as four separate letters). But aside from choosing a font that doesn't do that, there is nothing much we can do. --WikiTiki89 16:29, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
- I wish someone had told me that. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:42, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
- The problem here is not a general problem with Arabic fonts, but specifically with the word ريال (riyāl), which by many Arabic fonts is interpreted as a currency symbol and made into a ligature. I think this is bad design on the part of the fonts (the currency symbol should only be used when inputted directly rather than as four separate letters). But aside from choosing a font that doesn't do that, there is nothing much we can do. --WikiTiki89 16:29, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
- The discussion is at MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Fonts for Arabic are disastrous. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:51, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
- Looks good now --New WT User Girl (talk) 10:46, 27 August 2017 (UTC)