Re: [smc-devel] Linux and Malayalam Unicode

[Baiju M]

MalOtf.ttf font is not upt date with latest pango (CVS), so please use the 
AkrutiMal2Normal font from keralaindustry.org/malayalam

Regards,
Baiju M


--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 15:30:22 
From: Vinod <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Cc: 

>Hi,
>   I'm involved in setting up Malayalam Wikipedia
>[ml.wikipedia.org] which uses Unicode. I have a few
>questions on the Pango module and the Unicode font
>from SMC. 
>
>It appears that the module+font combination handles
>Unicode in a slightly non-standard way. By standard I
>mean the recently released Unicode 4.0
>http://www.unicode.org/book/preview/ch09.pdf
>
>To produce chillaksharangal when using patched
>Pango+MalOtf, I have to code 
>consonant+anuswaram+virama, while pg 33 in the chapter
>linked above stipulates that consonant+virama+zwj
>should be used. This error also appears in the ml_IN
>locale released by FSF. To check this, please cut
>paste from the following page into Gedit:
>http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~vinodmp/wiki/Chilltest.html
>
>Another error I noticed is that the RA sign [as in
>chithram] is not always rendered correctly. The sign
>appears on the right side instead of the left when
>consonant+virama+RA is used [RA as in maram], and it
>appears correctly on the left side when
>consonant+virama+RRA [RRA as in paara] is used. It
>should be on the left side in both cases.
>
>I noticed the above viewing what I believe to be
>standard-compliant text in gedit with the patched
>Pango module [patch from Baiju's webpage] and MalOtf.
>Akruti font produces the same results. Thoolika
>Traditional Unicode font [from
>http://www.supersoftweb.com/Unicode.htm] which has a
>large glyph collection produces a lot more errors when
>used with the patched Pango module though this font
>works quite well in Microsoft Windows. Why is this
>happening? 
>
>I'm also interested in finding out whether there is
>anybody working on making Mozilla in Linux display
>Malayalam Unicode correctly.
>
>Thanks,
>Vinod
>
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