Wikipedia is getting ready to adopt web fonts for its pages. Far from being a cosmetic choice, the idea is to enable everyone online to read and write content in their own languages. Most local fonts, used by websites, offer little or no support for non-Western scripts, and this has been stifling web adoption in many places.
The site is now
launching support for web fonts for some users and pages, after several months of work. The plan is to enable them on the entire site eventually.
With Wikipedia's new focus on India as a the place for its next big expansion, it's easy to see why this is what most of the work around web fonts has centered on.
For now, the Wikipedia versions in Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil and Telegu will add support for the feature.
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