Chinese characters are rendered as unicode hashes by Graphoid service, e.g. https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shizhao/%E6%B2%99%E7%9B%92
Graphoid needs to select a font, or multiple fonts, on the basis of the required characters. One library able to do so is pangocairo, as in this example: https://gist.github.com/santhoshtr/bea3da00651bcd18e282
See also: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fonts
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Cwek | T98836 Graph Extension doesn't render Chinese in Graph images | |||
| Resolved | None | T136399 Graph Extension doesn't use the Japanese in Graph images | |||
| Declined | None | T127683 Graphoid should handle font fallback/selection for all Unicode planes | |||
| Resolved | • Pchelolo | T153726 Install/Verify all of international unicode fonts are available on SCB* cluster |
Again the same discussion? https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077861.html
@Nemo_bis, yeah, seems similar. Vega lib uses on-canvas drawing, and I suspect we need to connect various fonts to it, if they are available. We might also have a 'per-wiki' settings for choosing fonts.
We might also have a 'per-wiki' settings for choosing fonts.
Please don't... if you need to find special fonts, use those in the ULS repository.
The problem is that available fonts are not used, not that the fonts are actually lacking.
This post might help: https://medium.com/@adamhooper/fonts-in-node-canvas-bbf0b6b0cabf
Moving off the sprint board - the Discovery team won't be able to finish this work at this time.
Due to the current un-deployment of Graphoid (See T242855), declining the task as won't be fixed.