Thread:Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Design/Typography/Arial?/reply (6)

What "severe disruption" is there?

Erwin made a claim that we didn't consider non-Latin scripts or languages with special needs that use Latin scripts. This isn't true. Even if it was, not a single new bug has been filed since we launched regarding language support. No one has been unable to read or edit Wikimedia projects that was able to before.

Before and after this update, many wikis have had to have overrides via Common or Vector CSS. This includes wikis like Persian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. For the worst case cited (Japanese Wikipedia) the vast majority of the issues reported are with the serif headers alone. I think if we want to try and enhance Vector's core variables to not set serif as CJK headers and other language-specific enhancements so that we don't need local overrides, that's a good thing to explore.

Before we launched this, we already acknowledged that we would need to keep working with local admins to figure out what needed to be changed. But the idea that there was some perfect utopia of language support that we violated and caused major bugs is a complete exaggeration.