Text for kjp (Pwo Eastern Karen) and mni (Manipuri) rendered as boxes in Firefox 52 on Windows Vista
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	Wladek92
	Apr 20 2020, 11:14 AM

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Steps to Reproduce:

connect under Windows (Vista .... yes I know)
open firefox (worst in chrome)
open /kjp page => https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual/kjp
open /mni page => https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions/Navigation_prototype_feedback/mni

Actual Results:
If you are lucky all works fine.
In the other case non latin chars are all displayed with dummy squares meaning a corresponding font has not been found.

Expected Results:
Missing fonts should be downloaded and displayed automatically without user intervention for the download to be transparent, or in the same way as Adobe prompts a user when opening a specific .pdf : "Do you want to down load the font?"

Workaround:
/kjp is MYANMAR LETTER
/mni is MEETEI MAYEK LETTER
Download and install respective fonts manually (.... you should know which ones) :

/kjp => I used mmttext.ttf on http://support.cambiumtech.com/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=1839
/mni => https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/master/phaseIII_only/unhinted/ttf/NotoSansMeeteiMayek/NotoSansMeeteiMayek-Regular.ttf
Display is then more pleasant

notDisplayableKJP.jpg (794×1 px, 191 KB)

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Wladek92 created this task.Apr 20 2020, 11:14 AM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptApr 20 2020, 11:14 AM

@Wladek92: Hi, please always include exact browser version information.

or in the same way as Adobe prompts a user when opening a specific .pdf : "Do you want to down load the font?"

That is up to your web browser and system, not to some website...

My browser =>Firefox ESR 52.9.0 32 bits.

My OS: Windows Vista family Ed premium SP2.

Aklapper renamed this task from /kjp /mni undisplayable text to Text for kjp (Pwo Eastern Karen) and mni (Manipuri) rendered as boxes in Firefox 52 on Windows Vista.Apr 20 2020, 11:45 AM

See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/WebFonts for more information.
If you know fonts for these languages and these fonts are under a free and open source license, please share links and create a dedicated ticket for adding a specific font for a specific language to the Webfonts setup on Wikimedia servers - as that's not the case I'm going to close this task as non-actionable.

@Wladek92: Also note that Firefox 52.9.0 has been unsupported for 19 months and Microsoft's support for Vista ended eight years ago. You should be more worried about the many, many security issues which can be used to break into your system, than about some boxes on some web pages.

I will also explicitly quote that Webfonts needs to be enabled manually by users using ULS preference window in case you have not done that yet. :)

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Text for kjp (Pwo Eastern Karen) and mni (Manipuri) rendered as boxes in Firefox 52 on Windows Vista
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