[OLPC India] Marathi Font help + Glyph alignment feedback

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 00:29 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> Jim Gettys wrote:
> > Marco will be working on building a new version of the web browser very
> > soon.  Support for Arabic and a number of other complex scripts has just
> > "landed" in Firefox (on which our browser is based), and high on our
> > list of things to do next is to update the browser.
> >                               - Jim
> >
> >   

Hi all,
I got a B4 system today, and did some testing after upgrading to joyride
build 190. Here are my feedback/reports

1) The partial rendering (seen the en.wikipedia's Devanagari page) with
Browse has indeed been fixed. Thanks Marco :-)

2) It looks like the corrupt fontconfig cache issue remains - the UI was
not able to pick up fonts with Devanagari coverage automatically. (Eg:
The journal showed boxes with codepoints after I used Browse to visit a
page with Hindi titles). Deleting the cache and regenerating them seems
to work. This may be an issue with fontconfig itself -
http://abock.org/2007/11/01/font-sadness/ sounds vaguely familiar :-)

3) In Write activity, split vowels signs (they are found in two major
scripts, Bengali (bn) and Malayalam (ml)) are sometimes being rendered
incorrectly. Instead of splitting the vowel sign up and placing the the
base consonant _in between_, in some cases, Write is rendering the split
vowel sign after the base consonant.
I would do some more investigation on this and if required file a ticket
(it may be entirely possible that I'm doing something really stupid :-)

Warm regards,
Sayamindu



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