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Enable Kulmus fonts for Hebrew
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Author: dovijacobs

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Universal Language Selector has been enabled now on our wiki (he.wikisource), and it is a great step forward for correctly displaying complicated texts. Amir Aharoni (who notified us) and the other people who worked on this deserve great credit!

At Amir's advice, I am filing a bug request that additional open software fonts be enabled for languages "hbo" and "he", because major text projects at he.wikisource do not necessarily employ the same font that was selected as default.

Specifically, it would be beneficial to enable the entire collection of fonts at the "Culmus" project:
http://culmus.sourceforge.net/

Of the "Culmus" fonts, the most important one to enable is "Keter YG" (which is used extensively on hundreds of pages):
http://culmus.sourceforge.net/taamim/index.html

Version: master
Severity: enhancement

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:08 AM
• bzimport added a project: UniversalLanguageSelector.
• bzimport set Reference to bz51098.
• bzimport created this task.Jul 10 2013, 8:24 AM
KartikMistry added a comment.Jul 30 2013, 1:25 PM

Hi,

Is it fine to add only 'Keter YG' since it is most useful? I don't see any benefit to add 10 sets of fonts here.

Let me know. Patch is otherwise ready to go!

• bzimport added a comment.Jul 31 2013, 5:56 PM

dovijacobs wrote:

Well, the more the merrier... :-)

Is there a significant difference in terms of time and effort?

But thanks and let's do Keter YG for now.

Amire80 added a comment.Jul 31 2013, 6:07 PM

Actually, we try to add fonts if there's actual need for them and not just for variety. I can understand the need for Keter, because it presents text in a particular historical style, so it's useful for Wikisource, but just adding pretty fonts for decoration and pretty headings is discouraged.

• bzimport added a comment.Aug 5 2013, 2:02 PM

dovijacobs wrote:

No problem. Let's go ahead with Keter YG.

Amire80 moved this task from Backlog to Adding fonts on the UniversalLanguageSelector board.Jul 22 2015, 4:31 PM
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Aklapper removed KartikMistry as the assignee of this task.Feb 2 2022, 10:17 PM

@KartikMistry: Hi, I'm resetting the task assignee due to inactivity. Please feel free to reclaim this task if you plan to work on this - it would be welcome! Also see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Assignee_cleanup for more information - thanks!

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 12:24 PM
Bdenckla mentioned this in T332403: Add Taamey D Hebrew WebFont.Mar 17 2023, 3:04 PM
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