Thanks for the feedback, Ravishankar. As we do not have any native Tamil speakers on the Wikimedia Language Engineering team, we are not able to assess your observations.

According to https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/, Apple allows bug reports.

Could you please report a bug with Apple, and add any information you reported there, also in here? Additionally, please ensure that you make Apple aware that "something in their platform breaks Wikipedia" and that the issue is tracked here in bug 49949. Thanks for your engagement!

ravidreams_03 wrote:

This essentially means asking a third party to provide proper support for a particular web font.

I hope they don't send me to the bug report page of Lohit Tamil font maker :)

I leave it to the Wikimedia developers to update the status of this bug as they wish.

Thanks for looking in to this.

ravidreams_03 wrote:

As we do not have any native Tamil
speakers on the Wikimedia Language Engineering team, we are not able to assess
your observations.

This is the precise issue. I understand that no developer team can have speakers in all world languages. Nevertheless, their work affects all people.

For Tamil and Malayalam, at least there are some people to test and report bugs. But for majority of the Indian languages and many other languages there are no one to report bugs. So there is no way of knowing what works, what works not and what things were broken that were working well already.

The Wikimedia team should develop better procedure to deploy codes of these nature. You may have a separate beta installation but majority of the community doesn't know its existence and they will not understand all the issues and use cases unless it is rolled out into their own project. Even if they understand the issue, they will not how to report and where to report.

Understanding this context, hope the developers will try their best to test rigorously before they deploy. Live Wikipedia projects are not testing grounds. At least, I don't expect it from the developing team of world's largest information source.

Thanks for reading this essay ;)

Ravishankar, it's not clear for me from your comment: Did you contact Apple and tell them about the problem, or not?

(In reply to comment #3)
Could you please avoid meta-discussions about what the Wikimedia team should do or should not do, and stick to the actual specific technical problem, please? Feel free to discuss this on a wikipage, but this is off-topic for Bugzilla.