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On mobile, Skeirs font for Gothic only show blocks in Categories; typing in Gothic on Android shows latin letters
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"[...] The Gothic language has a lot of problems with typing and font display in Gothic. With the visual editor it had become possible to type and display Gothic quite well, but there is one problem, or several ones:

  • On Android devices the in-built Skeirs font can be used to display Gothic, but when going to categories in the Visual Editor, it shows blocks.
  • You can't properly type in Gothic on an Android device. On a laptop it works perfect, but when typing with a phone, it just displays the Latin letters on Android, except if you put the cursor in between two Gothic letters without a break, if you do this, you can type in Gothic letters, but you can't use breaks or it will switch to Latin letters again."

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Aklapper renamed this task from A problem with typing on the Gothic Wikipedia on mobile to On mobile, Skeirs font for Gothic only show blocks in Categories; typing in Gothic on Android shows latin letters.Jan 5 2018, 2:23 PM
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Based on the behaviour described here, I suspect that this is a problem with Android, not with the visual editor. Sadly, performing a deep investigation of this issue for a wiki written in an extinct language that has been dead for hundreds of years [1] is not a priority.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_language

Is there something specific that we could recommend the local community to look into/try etc.?

Is there something specific that we could recommend the local community to look into/try etc.?

I have no idea. I remember from working on the mobile apps that missing fonts were a big issue, and that there wasn't much that the team could do about it. Perhaps @Amire80 might have some recommendations?

Deskana lowered the priority of this task from Low to Lowest.Feb 23 2018, 4:19 PM