[smc-discuss] Malayalam in Android 4.0

[Jishnu]

What happens in ICS is, the browser render complex scripts perfectly when
font is embedded using fontface.

On Thursday, December 1, 2011, Siji Sunny <sijisunny at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Jishnu <jishnu7 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I don't know whether it is appropriate to post here or not.
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>> Here are some sceenshots of Ice Cream Sandwich web-browser.
>> DropBox | jishnu7
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>> It is showing/rendering Malayalam perfectly for websites which are
>> font embedded and other websites are showing nothing as content. I
>> tried to replace the fallback font. But still complex script rendering
>> is not available. (by the way, ICS supports hindi and even have a
>> language pack.).
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> I have been working with android for getting Indic support and had some
experiments with various phones and development boards.And the result was
really interesting.
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> Here some of my findings
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> Initially I have experimented with Samsung Galaxy(froyo) fit without
rooting and it's having the support for Hindi in browser and even in
applications too.But other indian languages are displaying as square boxes.
> Then I rooted the device and while exploring in the font path, realised
that only Hindi font is there (DroidHindi.ttf).So I have replaced the
DroidHindi with a Tamil Unicode font and browser and the sample application
with Tamil text (Menu's Buttons etc) rendered properly.
> But while tried with Malayalam it's failed to do the character level
reordering.So assumes character level reordering algorithm is not
implemented for malayalam and may be for some other languages.
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> Since the source code of samsung android built is not available, I have
tried with ICS in pandaboard and in the font path three indic fonts are
there.
> Lohit Devanagari
> Lohit Tamil
> And Lohit Bengali.
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> But rendering (combinations and re-ordering ) is not happening with any
of the three languages.
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> Trying to fix those issue, will update you soon.
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>> How it render complex scripts for web embedded fonts but not for
internal font ?
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