407282 - increase legibility in textareas, input fields etc.

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement)

Description

[lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070427 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: 

Dear friends,

there is a « twin » bug report with this subject at

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12227
MediaZilla b u g 12227 · increase legibility in textareas, input fields etc.

regarding « Steps to Reproduce »:

It depends from your system. Please understand that at different public places the rights to configure PC's is quite limited and installation of fonts, programs is forbidden.

Such places are: libraries, schools, universities, labor places, internetcafés etc.

What did I do:

I inserted the line from below

→ [[commons:{{FULLPAGENAME}}]] ←

both at
http://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Language_user_templates&action=edit
and in this BugZilla installation.

I can not see the UTF-8 arrow characters properly because I never ever changed font settings for the PC I am using in this internetcafé.


enhancement request:
Provide some functionality to select the font and font size which is required to edit a textarea (and later to display the comment etc. content) directly on the enter_bug.cgi, show_bug.cgi, ... pages.


Thanks for all your efforts in advance!

Best regards Reinhardt [[user:Gangleri]]

P.S. more thoughts:

It is questionable if internet users trying to access some information need to have first the knowledge how to configure their systems or if « help » about how be able to see what they want to see is available at the right place.

I am neither talking about pages written only in characters from the Latin block nor from pages in German where the special character s ÄÖÜäöüß may not be represented correctly.

I am talking about direct or indirect help as available at
http://bn.wikipedia.org/ where you can see
« How to read and write in Unicode Bangla » available at
http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/project:Bangla_script_display_help


I am convinced that the ability to identify the « right script » for an information, even if is displayed in BugZilla  can be improved.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
see above

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

I understand the need, and that it's difficult to change the IME on a public terminal, but this is still the job of the IME, not of Bugzilla. At the worst, it's the job of the browser.