Quoting G Rajesh Iyer <ganesanrajesh@softhome.net>:
Hi, Regarding you message that fontconfig does not list other fonts except arial unicode, what is the present position? I am trying to bring Tamil support in SuSE. Mike Fabian mfabian@suse.de of SuSE likes to know present status. Can you reply to me at ganesanrajish@eth.net
The bug is fixed, have a look at: http://fontconfig.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84 or look below.
Will you please vote for the bug 204039 at: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204039
This will make Mozilla be able to display webpages encoded in Tamil Unicode under ALL platforms. A very important step for tamil support in Linux, the same code/patch could maybe used for other products such as OpenOffice.
If you want more information just send an email.
Thanks Manmathan --------------
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Tamil orthography : U+0B82 and Tamil digits had better be removed Description: I examined a dozen of Tamil truetype fonts (in Unicode as opposed to TSCII encoding) and none of them has U+0B82. TSCII(glyph encoding widely used even now) doesn't have U+0B82 (see http://www.tamil.net/tscii/faq5.html), which can indicate
Mike, I am forwarding the message I received from Manmathan. Kindly do the needful. Rajesh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manmathan Kumarathurai" <mannan@daimi.au.dk> To: <ganesanrajish@eth.net> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 9:06 PM Subject: Re: Font config that
U+0B82 is not used very often if used at all. In addition to U+0B82, 11 of 12 TTFs (included in Mandrake Linux 9.1:
ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/fonts-ttf-tamil-1.1 -1mdk.noarch.rpm
) don't have Tamil digits and numbers (U+0BE7 - U+0BF2). Some fonts lack only a couple while others don't have any digits/numbers. Perhaps, most Tamil speakers prefers Western-style digits (well, they're originated from India as you know well) to traditional Tamil digits.
Given the situation of current fonts in circulation, U+0B82 and [U+0BE7 - U+0BF2] may as well be removed from ta.orth. Otherwise, none of fonts in Mandrake Linux 9.1 (also used by other Linux/Unix users) would be recognized as supporting Tamil. I found this problem after adding 'ta' font preference option to Mozilla (see <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204039>. The patch uploaded there doesn't have font-pref change, yet.).
------- Additional Comments From Jungshik Shin 2003-05-06 02:34 -------
I asked a native Tamil speakers (Manmathan Kumarathurai : mannan daimi au dk) about those characters and was told that I'm right. Below is his response to my query:
<quote>
You are right. These characters af very rarely used thats why the font developers didn't use time to create them. They aren't part of the widely used tscii fonts either. </quote>
------- Additional Comments From Keith Packard 2003-05-06 07:27 -------
Thanks for the updates.
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