[Indic-computing-devel] Re: [Kannada] A few kannada bug fixes to qt-3.2.1

[Arun S. <ar...@sh...>]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:17:52AM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:

Issue (b) below has been fixed. (a) Still remains. A screenshot to
demonstrate the problem with (a):

http://www.sharma-home.net/~adsharma/misc/wrong.jpg

Updated patch attached. Some of this may be applicable to Telugu too. 

	-Arun

> Remaining issues:
> 
> a) Halant/Virama rendering broken. This seems to be freetype specific,
> since I see the same behavior with gnome/gedit.
> b) This comment in qscriptengine_x11.cpp:
> 
> // * In Kannada and Telugu, the base consonant cannot be
> //   farther than 3 consonants from the end of the syllable.
> 
> is not strictly correct. For cases such as "Lakshmi" - "kshmi" is one
> syllable. Gnome handles this correctly. But I couldn't figure out how to
> change the qt code to fix that.
> 
> - if (skipped == 2 && (script == QFont::Kannada || script == QFont::Telugu)) {	
> + if (skipped == 4 && (script == QFont::Kannada || script == QFont::Telugu)) {	
> 
> doesn't do it. Any patches will be highly appreciated.