[Foundation-l] Fonts

Wed Jul 20 17:35:03 UTC 2005

Dear Gerard,

That sounds like a good idea, but I do have a question: what do you mean by 
making fonts "free"?

Regards,

Zachary Harden, en:User:Zscout370

>From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
>To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
>Subject: [Foundation-l] Fonts
>Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:57:00 +0200
>
>Hoi,
>I am doing some research for Ultimate Wiktionary. As Ultimate Wiktionary 
>intends to have all words in all languages, a consequence will be that all 
>those words that are in rare fonts will not be viewable. This is to some 
>extend already an issue. It is quite normal when we have an article in 
>wikipedia about a foreign place to include the way it is written in that 
>country. This is problematic for places like Ethiopia, Georgia or Thailand 
>to name just a few with interesting fonts.
>
>On previous wikimeets I attended we did discuss the need for a collection 
>of fonts that would include as many fonts as we can get for our public. It 
>would help a lot if we could have one resource that is free for use and 
>that does include all the needed fonts. If it requires a reasonable amount 
>of money to buy a missing font to make it Free, I think it is worthy of 
>consideration. I am also sure that when we acknowledge the people who make 
>fonts available for this purpose we will be able to get many resources for 
>free.
>
>The issue of fonts came again to my attention because I do not have braille 
>of signing language fonts and I really would like to be able to include the 
>words and their representation in script in the Ultimate Wiktionary as 
>well. Technically speaking, it is not necessary for me to have these fonts 
>but I do consider it wrong to have content that the average user will not 
>be able to display. Therefore my request to consider having fonts as a 
>resource that we want to support for our users.