[OLPC India] Marathi Font help + Glyph alignment feedback

Wed Oct 17 18:20:05 EDT 2007

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


On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 19:47 +0530, Arjun Sarwal wrote:
> 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
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         
>         --
>         Sayamindu Dasgupta 
>         http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings
>         
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Arjun Sarwal ( arjun at laptop.org )
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child