Please add the language code mnc to the list of language codes supported for monolingual text values.
Usage example: {{lang|mnc|ᡥᠠᡵᠪᡳᠨ}}.
This is for [[:en:Manchu language]] support in [[Property:P1705]] of Wikidata.
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| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines /- | |
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| Add monolingual language code mnc | mediawiki/extensions/Wikibase | master | 3 -0 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
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| Open | None | T124286 [Epic] Wikidata language support | |||
| Open | None | T144274 [feature request] how to support vertical script direction at Wikidata | |||
| Resolved | thiemowmde | T137808 [Task] Add monolingual language code mnc |
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This is blocking bug, mn (mongol) != mnc manchu, a toungouse language, not a mongolian one, but near rules or writting and same script familly, so this allow to display nicely text, but information is erroneous. We have a lot of mnc entries name on wikipedia (fr/en/zh mainly).
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Do I understand correctly that we need vertical script support before we can enable this?
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If you are asking the font: http://abkai.net/core/download/abkai-xanyan/ or other options on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:MongolUnicode/doc#Font_issues.
I'm sorry, these fonts are not free-licensed, so no one can be used for UniversalLanguageSelector .
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What do you mean with "vertical script support"? As far as I understand there is nothing the Wikibase software can "support" in addition to what it already does. We do allow Unicode. As long as the sequence of characters a user wants to enter does exist in Unicode, there is nothing we do that prevents him from doing this.
A typical issue is how rare characters are rendered (how they look and how they are arranged). This is a complicated topic that involves operating system support, web browser support and optionally web fonts. I believe this is nothing we can solve in the Wikibase software. Maybe ask the UniversalLanguageSelector team?
I believe we should add the code mnc to our white-list simply because users are already misusing mn when they can not find mnc. I believe this is worse than anything else. The rendering will not get worse when we do allow this code.
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Change 311992 had a related patch set uploaded (by Thiemo Mättig (WMDE)):
Add monolingual language code mnc
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I did a global search to verify this. In contrast to "mn-Mong" (see T137810), "mnc" is already supported in all ULS, CLDR and Babel extensions. So I believe this is fine to go in.
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Hoi,
Having a font has never been a prequisite for support in MediaWiki. It has
been a reason to support the development of a Freely licensed font or to
support talks on the licensing of an existing font.
Thanks,
GerardM