Thread:Talk:Universal Language Selector/Font Problem in Tamil Wiki/reply (8)

Nemo, The "font help" link in the side bar is mostly the legacy of competing encoding standards in Tamil during in the late 90s and early 2000s. Since then unicode has become the standard tamil encoding system used everywhere. We have left the link in place for the sake of some gadgets.

Lohit Tamil is completely unsuited for Windows and that is where the vast majority of machines that access Ta wiki projects use. The unsuitability of Lohit Tamil is well known to Siebrand and Santosh. It was the very reason Webfonts was not rolled out in Ta wiki before. We have gone through this process once already. All we ask for is making "system font" option default and for the few people who dont have the system font installed (Latha in case of windows and Lohit Tamil in case of Ubuntu, Android and some other linux distros) they can go through the font help link and enable webfonts.

You can see the freaked out reaction of the community - this is not something people will get used to. It is makes site practically unreadable.