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Aramaic WebFonts
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Author: bashar.hanna

Description:
East Syriac font

Dear Friends,
Can you please add the attached fonts to the Aramaic Language. They represent the two common forms of Syriac Aramaic i.e. Eastern and Western. The fonts are distributed freely under http://www.bethmardutho.org/index.php/resources/fonts.html which gives the right to use and distribute them.
N.B. I was only able to attach one font for Eastern Syriac, I will try to attach the one for Western Syriac (SyrCOMUrhoy).
Many thanks

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

Attached:

SyrCOMAdiabene.otf273 KBDownload

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bz47229

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 1:37 AM
• bzimport added a project: UniversalLanguageSelector.
• bzimport set Reference to bz47229.
• bzimport created this task.Apr 15 2013, 4:51 AM
• bzimport added a comment.Apr 15 2013, 4:54 AM

bashar.hanna wrote:

West Syriac Font

here is the second font. Thanks

Attached:

SyrCOMUrhoy.otf287 KBDownload

• bzimport added a comment.May 18 2013, 3:52 AM

man2fly2002 wrote:

Sure this will be very helpful tool.

• santhosh added a comment.May 18 2013, 11:53 AM

WebFonts extension development is stopped and the functionality is available as part of Universal Language Selector (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UniversalLanguageSelector) extension.

So changing the component of the bug accordingly.

• santhosh added a comment.May 19 2013, 12:35 PM

Do you need to make any of the fonts(East Syriac Adiabene, SertoUrhoy) as default font for syc language? If so which font?

gerritbot added a comment.May 19 2013, 1:00 PM

Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/64518 (Gerrit Change Id4f434c544d71a5b9a95ae73c7fd502cdd083019)

• bzimport added a comment.May 19 2013, 4:06 PM

bashar.hanna wrote:

I would say NO. We need to keep the same default as the Internet Explorer (Estarngelo Edessa). Syriac is written in three forms. Eastern, Western, and Estranglo which is common between both Eastern and Western, that is why it was the default in the first place. Because some other internet browsers do not use "Estarngelo Edessa" as their default font, I would suggest to add Estarngelo Edessa font as well and make it the default for all the other internet browsers if possible. Thank you folks.

• santhosh added a comment.May 22 2013, 12:57 PM

Done. The fonts are also mapped to syc and arc language codes.

• bzimport added a comment.May 31 2013, 1:32 AM

bashar.hanna wrote:

Thank you folks for your efforts, would that be added to the Aramaic Wikipedia? If so, when would it be available? Thanks again.

• santhosh added a comment.May 31 2013, 3:35 AM

(In reply to comment #8)

Thank you folks for your efforts, would that be added to the Aramaic
Wikipedia?
If so, when would it be available? Thanks again.

It will be available when Universal Language Selector is deployed in Aramaic Wiki. It will happen soon. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UniversalLanguageSelector/Deployment/Planning for rough idea.

• bzimport added a comment.Sep 12 2013, 12:46 AM

bashar.hanna wrote:

Hi Folks, there was a mistake in spelling of the default font name. The correct name is "Estrangelo Edessa" not "Estarngelo Edessa" which is causing the wikipedia letters not joining as they should in Aramaic!
For your kind attention. Thanks

• santhosh added a comment.Sep 12 2013, 1:11 AM

Thanks bashar, I fixed it in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/83973/. Sorry for the mistake.

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