Benghali font replacement

[clash99]

Steps to reproduce the error

Look at staging site organization index

Actual behavior

Unreadable font for Benghali organization

Expected behavior

Fonts are replaced to be readable instead of boxes

Current:

Expected:

[seav]

As mentioned by @ian-ross in Slack, this can be remedied by using web fonts. We really cannot expect users to have fonts installed for all possible Unicode scripts.

[wonderchook]

How difficult is this to fix? @fhpichel is headed to Bangladesh so it would be good to tidy this up.

[clash99]

Not hard, I'll look at it this evening.

[clash99]

Spoke too soon - I don't think there is anything we can do. Its a browser-based issue so fixes are available for the user to change the default font for their preferred browser.

I'm trying to brainstorm if there is another way. If we knew the project/org font was benghali, we could force a font substitution on our side via css but we currently don't have any way of knowing that and I'm not sure it would be that easy. I'm totally open for other ideas on this one...

Is it currently broken for @fhpichel? If so, I can reach out to assist him on getting it fixed on his browser.

[seav]

Couldn't a fallback font in the CSS work for this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallback_font

[wonderchook]

One thought is that most Bengali speakers would be likely to have the right font installed. (I'm guessing here)

[dpalomino]

Hi,

I've just checked in my laptop with Chrome, Firefox and Safari (for desktop), and for Chrome for Android, and with all of them is working fine.

Thanks!
David

[seav]

Regarding the fallback fonts. It's in the CSS specification that when you list a bunch of fonts in the font-family CSS property and the more preferred font does not have a glyph for a character, it will try the remaining fonts in turn until it finds one that does have a glyph. Otherwise, it will display the "missing character" glyph.

So there is no need to detect which language or script our organization or project names are using. Just provide a list of fonts in font-family that covers all of our likely Unicode scripts that can be used.

[ian-ross]

There's this, which has glyphs for all of the Unicode basic multilingual plane (which covers most languages currently in use): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Unifont I've been trying to find a webfont version of it, without luck though.

[clash99]

I have found this font replacement to be the best even though its only in ttf format: Noto Sans Bengali
https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-beng

I would like for someone who was seeing the hex boxes to confirm that this is working correctly for them.

[seav]

Is this issue closed by #639? Note @clash99's request above: "I would like for someone who was seeing the hex boxes to confirm that this is working correctly for them."

[ian-ross]

I checked it and commented when I merged the PR, but I guess the PR didn't have the magic to close the issue. Anyway, it works!