[OLPC India] Marathi Font help + Glyph alignment feedback

Tue Oct 16 10:17:55 EDT 2007

The Browser has some known issues with regard to recognizing languages,
though I couldn't find the exact ticket related to that. It is expected to
be looked into, by the corresponding developers, soon after Trial -3

There is a ticket which talks about CJK font rendering problems,
https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/2375. I am not sure, though, how much it would
be of help in our present context.

regards,
Arjun

On 10/16/07, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 17:09 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> > I get mixed results after reseting the font cache:
> >
> > All the Sugar fields work fine.
> >
> > In write, I need to cycle through the font selection menu a few times
> > before I get to work, but then it works consistently.
> >
>
> Hmm - it worked for me as soon as I selected Lohit Hindi.
>
> > With the browser, I get a funny mix. For example, on the Devanagari
> > page in the wikipedia, I get the first instance of 09XX characters
> > rendered properly, but farther down in the page, the rendering doesn't
> > work.
> >
>
> Somehow the browser is having problems with selecting the fonts. The
> initial part of the page in Wikipedia renders properly since it is
> _explicitely_ defined as a sanskrit string - ie:
>
> <span lang="sa" xml:lang="sa">देवनागरी</span>
>
> I saved the page locally, changed the source (<html lang="hi"..> from
> <html lang="en"...>), and it worked flawlessly (see
>
> http://sayamindu.randomink.org/images/olpc_browse_wikipedia_hindi_sshot.png
> )
>
> I'm not sure whether this is an issue with Xulrunner or Fontconfig. I'll
> try to take a more closer look tonight and let you know.
>
> Warm regards,
> Sayamindu
>
>
>
>
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> --
> Sayamindu Dasgupta
> http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings
>
>

-- 
Arjun Sarwal ( arjun at laptop.org )
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