They can be enabled by clicking the gear icon near the Languages list, then clicking "Fonts", and checking "Download fonts when needed".
This was on by default for some time in 2013, but it turned out to cause severe performance problems and was made opt-in. By 2017 the issues are quite different given the technology landscape: modern operating systems supports fonts better, and some of the webfonts specifications in web standards changed as well. The whole feature should be redone, although unfortunately this is not currently on the top of the Language team's priority list. That said, I'm ALWAYS willing to hear about _problems_ in different languages. AFAIK, the issue with Persian is that the text is usually readable, but not as elegant as it should be, although I'm very interested in hearing more details. For some other languages, especially of South and South East Asia, fonts are not installed in operating systems at all, so they are completely unreadable, although this is getting better in the latest versions of desktop Linux, Android, Windows, Mac, and iOS. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2017-04-19 9:56 GMT+03:00 Emmanuel Engelhart <[email protected]>: > Hi > > A few Wikipedias - like the Wikipedia in Farsi - (should) have support > for Web fonts. This is done to insure that the display of the article is > done correctly. Unfortunately I have difficulties to find them, where > are they defined/loaded? > > Kind regards > Emmanuel > > -- > Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more > * Web: http://www.kiwix.org > * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline > * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
