[Indic-computing-devel] improper rendering of devanagari letter au औ

[<al...@ya...>]

Developers, 
I've been experimenting with hi_IN.UTF-8 on egroups the past few weeks to test
usability. I'd like to draw your attention to 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Hindi-Forum/message/784

The letter Ou -ie 0914 औ is not displayed properly here. This is not the
first such occurrence, I have been able to simulate this many times.

Steps for simulation:
Post a messages using hi_IN.UTF-8 via any yahoogroup's website-post link, the
first letter in a word should be U0914. 
The 0914 औ letter gets "broken" into something else.
This has happened with IE as well as mozilla 1.1 on Windows 98 & XP
respectively. I am yet to simulate this on linux.

To simulate you could try posting a message on
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore-hindi/ - this egroup also has
some messages in the archives that show the same erratic behavior.

Now, the bug is not browser specific, as I could simulate it on both IE and
mozilla. It could be windows clipboard specific, but other copy paste that
involves the same letter works fine on windows.

Therefore I suspect that it is because of the way the browsers/yahoogroups are
handling the strings. 

Does anybody have any off the cuff ideas about why this is happening? [What's
special about U0914?]

Also, is it a "known bug"? ie has someone faced this before?

If the information provided for simulation is inadequate, I apologise, please
ask for the specific information on this list or at al...@ya....

Many thanks.
Alok

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Alok Kumar
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9th Main, 47th Cross, Jayanagar V Block
Bangalore 560076 India
+91-80-653-8200
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-bangalore-hindi/
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