Help:Extension:WebFonts

What can this extension do?
Many languages do not have proper fonts easily available. This may be because the operating systems do not ship these fonts, the script has fonts but users don't know from where they will get them or how to install them in their system, or even the user is reading the wiki from a shared computer without these fonts. Sometimes it may be because the user does not know how to configure the operating system for a language or the user does not have enough permissions to do this. Because of all these reasons, providing the content in certain languages is facing issues. This extension tries to solve this by embedding the fonts in the wiki itself. Fonts will be served from the server and the user's system would not need to have the fonts installed.

Usage
When the extension is installed and enabled, along with the login, preferences link in the wiki page, a menu will appear to select a font for the page. By default, the first font in that menu will be applied to the wiki. A user can change the font and it will be remembered across the pages. Optionally user can disable the font embedding too, this choice will also remembered across pages, even for next visits, for 30 days.

If the font is available in user's local system, font will not be downloaded from the mediawiki server. It will be taken from the user's computer. Otherwise, font will be downloaded from the server only once. ie when the user selects the font first time. Next time onwards, font will be taken from the local cache.

List of supported scripts, languages and fonts
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Arabic
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Devanagari
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Latin
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Advanced use
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Language tags
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Font family
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Requesting support for new languages
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Reporting issues
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