[ubuntu-in] Tamil support: Ubuntu Drapper Beta

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi Gora,

Thanks for your reply.

On 5/4/06, Gora Mohanty <gora_mohanty at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Welcome, and sorry for the delay in responding.

Nah! No problem.

> I see that you have
> got a few responses on the gnome-i18n list.

Yup.

> That looks very much like it is using the wrong font, i.e., something
> like Sans
> or freefont that has partial coverage of Tamil glyphs, rather
> than the proper Tamil font included in ttf-indic-fonts.

Bingo! System->Preferences->Font was set to Sans. I changed it to
Lohit Tamil (one of the fonts provided with ttf-indic-fonts and it
worked!

http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/tamil/corrected-1.jpg

> What does
> "fc-list :lang=ta" show you?

Where do I check this?

> I am sorry. I am unable to read Tamil, and cannot pinpoint the problem
> here. If you can provide us a short UTF-8 Tamil file, a screenshot
> showing the incorrect rendering,

Now with the correct font selection, and incorrect display of a UTF-8 text file:

http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/tamil/input-error.jpg

> and, if possible, a screenshot of the
> proper rendering,

This is when I login with US English in gdm, and use CAPS lock to
switch between US English and Tamil Unicode encoding. This works,

http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/tamil/text-editor.jpg

Thanks again,

SK

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Shakthi Kannan
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