[smc-discuss] Malayalam in Android 4.0

Tom Vellaringattu tomvell at gmail.com
Thu Dec 1 08:45:59 PST 2011


Hi guys

I had been working on mobile apps for Malayalam and other languages 

Www.ipublisher.mobi for iPhone 

The android version we could do only for Hindi only

We have also developed a Facebook chat in 22 languages for iPad 

Will keep you updated

Sent from my iPad

On Dec 1, 2011, at 12:29 AM, 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:
> I don't know whether it is appropriate to post here or not.
> 
> Here are some sceenshots of Ice Cream Sandwich web-browser.
> https://picasaweb.google.com/jishnu7/DropBox?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCNb8wMv-1LTj7gE&feat=directlink
> 
> 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.).
> 
> 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.
> 
> Here some of my findings 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> But rendering (combinations and re-ordering ) is not happening with any of the three languages.
> 
> 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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