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

[Carthik Sharma]

Thanks Gora,

On 3/30/06, Gora Mohanty <gora_mohanty at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> --- Carthik Sharma <carthik at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 3/30/06, Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose at gnu.org.in> wrote:
> [...]
> >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).
> [...]
>
> OK, from your description, it seems like that there is a problem with
> Pango rendering of Malayalam. The rendering does look different in
> yudit (which is the reference point for Unicode rendering), and in
> gedit (which uses Pango, and should render the same as an Indic-enabled
> Firefox). As flickr seems to truncate the photos while resizing them,
> I am attaching them to this message. Please let me know if the yudit
> rendering is OK, and we can take things from there. Incidentally, these
> use the Samyak font mentioned in the Indlinux wiki.
>

yudit is perfect. gedit has the same problem as Firefox.

Thanks again,
Carthik.