Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] bugs

[Albert C. <aca...@gm...>]

On Nov 29, 2007 12:21 PM, Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 12:50:51AM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> >
> > Third of all, there are two fonts that are terribly
> > defective. The clone of Comic Sans gives me
> > weird stuff when I type non-ASCII stuff like the
> > multiplication symbol. There is another font
> > that won't even do ASCII right.
>
> ta.ttf, the Tamil font.  We should consider only loading
> locale fonts and showing them in the Text tool when that
> locale is being used...

I doubt that font is even good for Tamil.

Fonts are supposed to have Unicode tables.
The OS is supposed to let you type in Unicode.
One should be able to mix Tamil with ASCII.

If that font is used on a modern system, do you
just get rectangular boxes when you type Tamil?
Typing ASCII to get Tamil is wrong. You should type
Tamil if you want Tamil.

Fontforge can be used to recode the font.