WiscWeb - Using the UW Theme Language Fonts plugin
Overview
UW–Madison’s Cultural Linguistic Services (CLS) provides translation support for Spanish, Hmong, Tibetan, Chinese and Nepali. The university’s official font, Red Hat, does not support the character sets for three of these languages: Chinese, Nepali, and Tibetan. If you include text in these languages on your web pages, they will render using your operating system’s font for each language. However, CLS has identified preferred Google fonts for each that do a better job of rendering text in each language. This plugin provides these fonts, as well as additional customizations for enhanced readability.
The plugin loads the CSS and woff2 files for Eczar (Nepali), Jomolhari (Tibetan) and Noto Serif SC (Simplified Chinese) from the cdn.wisc.cloud domain that is managed by University Marketing at UW-Madison.
The plugin works by overriding root-scoped CSS custom properties (variables) for the font-family property defined in UW Theme. With the plugin installed, text in these languages will render in their preferred fonts. Text in English, Spanish, Hmong or any other languages using characters supported by Red Hat fonts will render with Red Hat.
Disclaimer
This plugin was designed specifically for improving the readability of Chinese, Nepali, and Tibetan languages within WiscWeb and the UW Theme. It will not work without UW Theme.
[Doc 164729 content is unavailable at this time.]Plugin activation
The UW Language Fonts plugin can be activated by Administrators using the instructions in WiscWeb - Self service plugin activation / deactivation.
Displaying English within translated text
If you've translated to Chinese, Nepali, or Tibetan on a page but want little snippets to appear in English, you can manually add the English ‘lang’ attribute to that grouping of text:
<p lang="en-US">Your English words here</p>