[ubuntu-in] Typing and more importantly reading in Malayalam

[Carthik Sharma]

On 3/30/06, Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose at gnu.org.in> wrote:
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> Carthik,
> > This webpage works fine here on Dapper, with the stock Firefox. Do you
> > have a reference site (to check my browser) for Malayalam that I can
> > use?
> > Is http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/demos/unicode_testview.html a good one to use?
> > It says it is an Unicode test viewer. The above screenshot was
> > generated using this page's output.
> That page is indeed broken. The Bengali rendering is just crap. Try this
> page and see if it's okay --
> http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D
> I have a reference rendering here --
> http://flickr.com/photos/ghoseb/120191732/

The rendering I see in my browser is the same as the one seen in your
reference screencap, and both have errors.

The error that I can point out easiest is probably the symbol hta
occurs at the end of the title (the one that looks like a Chandra-Kala
(moon-like shape). This modifier (used to join consonants) is
misplaced. The title, for example, should read "lakshadweep~'
(lakshad~weep~) but instead reads (laskhadawee~p~). What should have
appeared before the W letter appears after it, with the "EE" sound,
which does not make sense.

Thank you for taking the effort here, with me.

Carthik.
> Regards,
> BG
>
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