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Add U+0C5D to the special characters set for Language Telugu used in Vector, Vector 2022, Visual Editor
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The character U+0C5D "Nakaara Pollu" is required for use in rendering old Telugu texts. Please add the same to Special characters section for Telugu used by Mediawiki editors. The glyph is supported by Noto Sans Telugu font.

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If you are curious and want to try making this change yourself, this would require adding a line in the file /resources/src/mediawiki.language.specialCharacters/specialcharacters.json in the code repository mediawiki/core in Gerrit.
(A past example can be found in T185918 / https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/core/+/406829/)

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Hello! I'd like to work on this task. I am currently looking into the implementation and plan to submit a patch for review.

Change #1301460 had a related patch set uploaded (by Zaidusyy; author: Zaidusyy):

[mediawiki/core@master] Add Telugu Nakaara Pollu to special characters

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1301460

@Arjunaraoc @Zaidusyy Thank you for the suggestion and the patch. Can you please confirm what would be the right place to put this character in the list? I see that the proposed patch places it between "వ" and "శ", and knowing no Telugu myself, I'm finding it difficult to review the patch without some explanation :) Thanks.

@matmarex ,
It is better to place it just before the Telugu numeral zero '౦' (U+0C66).

@matmarex
Thanks for the review.

I've updated the patch and moved U+0C5D (TELUGU LETTER NAKAARA POLLU) to immediately before the Telugu digit zero (U+0C66), following @Arjunaraoc suggestion

Change #1301460 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Add Telugu Nakaara Pollu to special characters

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1301460

Thanks!

The change will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis this week, on the usual schedule, reaching Wikipedias on Thursday. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train#Schedule