Reduce and stop usage of autonym font
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	May 17 2016, 4:11 AM

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The autonym font was developed in 2012 to avoid tofus in language name rendering in wiki pages. At that time, there were old operating systems and browsers in usem especially windows XP with less support for languages than Wikipedia has. It was never meant for a long term usage. 4 years later, there is better support for scripts in operating systems, new fonts were developed and are available for users. Language team has decided to gradually reduce its usage and finally retire autonym font. The upstream development for the font has stopped years back and there is no plan or resources to maintain it.

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Remove autonym font and its usage	mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector	master	+9 -235
	WIP Stop tofu detection and usage of autonym font	mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector	master	+3 -104

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Mentioned In: T180422: Investigate and update webfonts where possible
T90556: Update Autonym font to use Noto font family
T59323: Add Gothic, Old Church Slavonic, Khmer (Cambodian) scripts to Autonym font
T33791: Add web fonts for Chinese scripts
T135465: Stop tofu detection and applying webfonts

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santhosh created this task.May 17 2016, 4:11 AM

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Change 288920 had a related patch set uploaded (by Santhosh):
Stop tofu detection and usage of autonym font

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/288920

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 17 2016, 4:11 AM

santhosh triaged this task as Medium priority.May 17 2016, 4:21 AM

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santhosh mentioned this in T33791: Add web fonts for Chinese scripts.May 23 2016, 3:52 AM

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there is better support for scripts in operating systems, new fonts were developed and are available for users

Any data?

In T135464#2317313, @Nemo_bis wrote:

there is better support for scripts in operating systems, new fonts were developed and are available for users

Any data?

Every new version of operating system adds more rendering capacity and bundles more fonts. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typefaces_included_with_Microsoft_Windows how fonts included changes in every version. For rendering, Universal shaping engine by Microsoft and Harfbuzz are keeping up to support more and more language tags defined as part of Opentype spec

Arrbee edited projects, added Language-Engineering April-June 2016; removed Language-Q4-2016-Sprint 3.May 31 2016, 6:07 AM

Arrbee moved this task from Backlog to ULS on the Language-Engineering April-June 2016 board.

I take that as a "no".

Moving out of current release

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Amire80 moved this task from Backlog to ULS on the Language-Engineering July-September 2016 board.Jul 31 2016, 11:28 AM

• Nikerabbit mentioned this in T59323: Add Gothic, Old Church Slavonic, Khmer (Cambodian) scripts to Autonym font.Aug 18 2016, 1:29 PM

• Nikerabbit mentioned this in T90556: Update Autonym font to use Noto font family.

Change 288920 abandoned by Santhosh:
WIP Stop tofu detection and usage of autonym font

Reason:
Not in priority at least for now.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/288920

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Amire80 moved this task from Backlog to Webfonts issues on the UniversalLanguageSelector board.Nov 1 2017, 2:28 PM

Change 390945 had a related patch set uploaded (by Santhosh; owner: Santhosh):
[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Remove autonym font and its usage

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/390945

Change 390945 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Remove autonym font and its usage

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/390945

santhosh added a project: Language-2017-Oct-Dec.Nov 13 2017, 9:53 AM

• Nikerabbit removed projects: Language-Team, Patch-For-Review.Nov 13 2017, 3:22 PM

KartikMistry mentioned this in T180422: Investigate and update webfonts where possible.Nov 14 2017, 4:09 AM

Arrbee moved this task from Backlog to QA on the Language-2017-Oct-Dec board.Nov 14 2017, 7:16 AM