[Tuxpaint-devel] Tamil not Unicode (was re: bugs)

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:54:27PM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> 
> 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.

Problems include:

  * This is the only font we have for Tamil right now
  * The PO file for Tamil is written such that it works with this font
    (i.e., it's not 'written' using Unicode Tamil characters.)

We need to find someone knowledgable in Tamil to correct both of these
issues.

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-bill!
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