User talk:CFynn

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Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. My IP address is 118.103.143.41. ISP is Tashi Cell Bhutan. Chris Fynn (talk) 09:53, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

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I have renewed your IP block exemption, which should fix the issue for a year. Apologies for the inconvenience, please let me know if you run into problems again when the exemption has expired. --Blablubbs (talk) 16:24, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

@Blablubbs: Thanks for your help with this. Chris Fynn (talk) 12:37, 5 December 2022 (UTC)

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a question concerning Tibetan script

Hello Chris, I hope you can help with an issue with Tibetan script on maps.wikimedia.org which gets its data from openstreetmap.org (OSM) where I'm actively mapping. Recently I stumbled on an official .gov.tr sourced pdf file for Tibet listing official place names in Chinese and Tibetan. I've started to add even village names in Tibetan for places in Tibet using OSM. Today I had a controlling look on an area on Wikimedia maps using lang=bo parameter but noticed that some squares show up inside the village names. These squares did not show up on my pc or the map editor while editing so it may be an script issue either of the official source pdf or a wrong font for displaying Tibetan script correctly in Wikimedia maps. Do you have an idea? Greetings, --katpatuka (talk) 14:24, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

@Katpatuka: " The square boxes usually mean the that the font being used for display doesn't properly support the character, or combination of characters. There can also be problems with the text rendering engine being used on the client system.

Which font is used for Tibetan language will be controlled by the CSS stylesheet used by Wikimedia maps; (you'd probably need someone with high level privileges to get that changed) - if no particular font for Tibetan language and script is specified there, the display will probably fall back to the default font for Tibetan used by the client browser or operating system.

Two open source Tibetan fonts that can be embedded through CSS are: Uchen and Jomolhari

There can also be many problems with complex scripts like Tibetan if you try and cut and paste text from PDF files - if that is what you are doing - you may need to retype the Tibetan in the Wikimedia maps or Open Street Map editor.

I wouldn't rely too much on the "official" PRC place names for Tibet (the Chinese often mess up the Tibetan). The best reference is probably: Farmer, Michael(2022); An Atlas of the Tibetan Plateau Leiden: Brill. ISBN:978-90-04-49868-6 . All the names in Tibetan script may be found in the indexes at the back of that book, a PDF copy of which may be downloaded from the publisher's web site.

-- Chris Fynn (talk) 21:50, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately there aren't many people around capable to edit in Tibetan - I can only copy and paste and hope that it's correct . Chinese sources are where sparse too so I was really happy finding such a pdf file. Tibetan place names found in wikipedia/wikidata do not produce such squares as far as I see. I'll try to create a phabricator bug... katpatuka (talk) 05:56, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

You won't get those squares when cutting and pasting from Wikipedia or Wikidata files because these contain plain text data. PDF files look like text but they are in fact a form of PostScript printer files originally containing printer instructions instead of text. These instructions rather than storing just e,g. the letter A, say put a particular glyph outline shape (referenced by the glyph name used in the original font rather than a character) at a specific x, y con=ordinate on the page (whether printed or displayed on a screen). When you cut and paste from a PDF file the original text is reconstructed using the glyph names in the font and mapping these back to text characters. This works perfectly for latin script text as the standard glyph names in Latin script fonts correspond directly to the letters of the Latin/Roman alphabet. However when it comes to text in non-roman scripts there are all sorts of complications (which I won't go into further here). Some of these problems may be overcome by using enhanced forms of PDF such as PDF/UA but this has to be chosen at the time the original pdf file was created - and the software application used to create the pdf file has to properly support that enhanced type of PDF. Anyway this type of problem seems to be the source of your squares which is the default glyph displayed when there is such an error - and known as the missing character glyph.

There is no real workaround other than manually correcting the places where these squares occur. Another way might be to use OCR to convert PDF to Unicode text. (There are recently some OCR applications that work well with Tibetan text). Chris Fynn (talk) 06:34, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for clarifying the pdf issue. In the meantime I found another source under Geographical names of Tibet which looks much more promising . katpatuka (talk) 07:17, 7 June 2025 (UTC)