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Add fonts and enable ULS webfont by default on Shan Wikipedia (shnwiki)
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Please add Pyidaungsu and Padauk fonts to ULS webfont for Shan Wikipedia (shnwiki) and enable ULS webfonts by default.

discussion: https://shn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WP:VPR&oldid=26077
Font links: Pyidaungsu and Padauk

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Ammarpad triaged this task as Medium priority.

We would like to update the request. Please set Pyidaungsu font as default ULS webfonts and Padauk font as secondary.
Pyidaungsu font link : http://www.mcf.org.mm/download-center/pyidaungsu-font.html

We would like to update the request. Please set Pyidaungsu font as default ULS webfonts and Padauk font as secondary.
Pyidaungsu font link : http://www.mcf.org.mm/download-center/pyidaungsu-font.html

@Ninjastrikers: Please provide a link to the explicit license of the font. We cannot support/install proprietary fonts.

@Aklapper :
Pyidaungsu font is licensed according to the terms of the SIL Open Font License, described at https://unicodetoday.org/fonts/ and http://mcf.org.mm/myanmar-unicode/384-font-history.html (in Burmese)
Padauk font is also licensed as SIL Open Font License, described at https://software.sil.org/padauk/

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Any update for this task, please?

Oh, sorry I forgot this.

I think we can do it soon, but we'll need to update some documentation first (see T240319).

Oh, sorry I forgot this.

I think we can do it soon, but we'll need to update some documentation first (see T240319).

Hi @Amire80, I do apologize if this caused any inconvenience. T240319 was already resolved. Is there any blocker for this task to be applied? Thank you!😃

@Ninjastrikers, How about this task bro? We have been waiting for a year!😃

@Saimawnkham: Please feel free to follow https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector#Adding_fonts and provide a patch to review in Wikimedia Gerrit if you would like to see this. Thanks!

Change 948227 had a related patch set uploaded (by Stang; author: Stang):

[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Add font Pyidaungsu, update version of Padauk to 5.001

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/948227

The link of Pyidaungsu seems no longer reachable, and I download them from https://myanmar.gov.mm/en/-/pyidaungsu-fonts-and-keyboards

@Ninjastrikers and @Saimawnkham, I hope you could answer the question from gerrit:

ULS is not a general purpose font repository. The goal is to provide fonts for languages which lack support in operating systems. Is there a reason to have multiple fonts for this language?

@Ninjastrikers and @Saimawnkham, I hope you could answer the question from gerrit:

ULS is not a general purpose font repository. The goal is to provide fonts for languages which lack support in operating systems. Is there a reason to have multiple fonts for this language?

Well, this request is from 2019 which there were font conflict between Myanmar Unicode and Zawgyi. Most of Burmese online users used non-Unicode font "Zawgyi" while Wikimedia sites used Unicode compatible fonts. Users complained they can't read shnwiki if they used Zawgyi. Therefore, this request happened.

@Ninjastrikers Thanks for your reply. I would like to confirm if the addition of this font is still needed, and it would be much appreciated if a new discussion thread could be started locally.

Change 948227 abandoned by Stang:

[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Add font Pyidaungsu, update version of Padauk to 5.001

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https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/948227

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No response for a long time, hence closing, feel free to reopen in the future if needed