From: Vinodh Rajan (vinodh.vinodh@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 04 2010 - 19:22:02 CST
> Please try a font with *no* support and let the OS pick fonts it knows of.
> Like Arial; Windows will then pick Mangal and Latha on it's own without
> running into weirdnesses....
Yeah. In that case everything works fine.
But my issue is specifically with Multi-script fonts.
V
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Michael Kaplan <michka@trigeminal.com> wrote:
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> Michael
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> -- Sent from a Palm Pre, b/c I'm not at my computer, Windows Phone 7 isn't
> available yet, and I don't care for the iPhone....
> ________________________________
> On Mar 4, 2010 2:27 AM, Vinodh Rajan <vinodh.vinodh@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I also tried with Code2000 and some other fonts which have support for
> multiple scripts.
>
> All give the same results.
>
> V
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Michael Kaplan <michka@trigeminal.com>
> wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, have you tried without Arial Unicode MS? You might have
>> better luck with a font like plain old Arial, so font fallback can take
>> over....
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> -- Sent from a Palm Pre, b/c I'm not at my computer, Windows Phone 7 isn't
>> available yet, and I don't care for the iPhone....
>> ________________________________
>> On Mar 3, 2010 5:28 AM, Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> wrote:
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>> Thanks for the added details, Vinodh. It does look strange. I've passed
>> this
>> on to relevant people to look at.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
>> Behalf Of Vinodh Rajan
>> Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 7:19 PM
>> To: mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
>> Cc: unicode@unicode.org
>> Subject: Re: [unicode] Problems with Windows 7 Unicode Font Rendering
>>
>>> * if I write Devanagari-only text, the result is ok.
>>> * if I write Tamil-only text, the result is ok.
>>> * if I write a text including both of Devanagari & Tamil, the result is
>>> not ok.
>>
>> Exactly !
>>
>>> In your screenshot, MS Word & Notepad.exe are compared.
>>> I'm not sure if the screenshot shows the trouble you described. It
>>> seems that the left-side vowel signs are not displayed correctly in
>>> Notepad.exe. What is wrong in MS Word? Sorry my ignorance on Indic
>>> script.
>>
>> Both in Notepad & MS Word, Arial Unicode MS is the selected font. But you
>> can see that, in MS Word only Devanagari is displayed properly, Tamil
>> vowel
>> signs are not placed properly. While in the Notepad, only Tamil display is
>> correct
>>
>> See the below screenshot again:
>>
>>
>> http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/vinodhrajan/ScreenShotFont-Rendering2.png
>>
>> The same scenario is repeated with Kannada & Gujarati (both are supported
>> by
>> Arial Unicode MS)
>>
>> For some strange reasons, it seems in a Multi-Script text, only the first
>> script block is rendered correctly.
>>
>> With Regards,
>>
>> Vinodh Rajan
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:14 AM, <mpsuzuki@hiroshima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:57:48 +0530
>>> Vinodh Rajan <vinodh.vinodh@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have a peculiar issue with Windows 7 Unicode Font Rendering.
>>>>
>>>>Windows 7 seems to support the display only one script block of a
>>>>Multi-Lingual Font (Such as Arial Unicode MS, Code2000) at a time. The
>>>>other script blocks in the same font are not rendered properly at all.
>>>
>>> The trouble you had is something like following?
>>
>>>
>>>>http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll301/vinodhrajan/Screenshot-FontRe
>>>>ndering.png
>>>>
>>>>But the fonts have full support for all the blocks.
>>>
>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> mpsuzuki
>>>
>>>>Is it an issue with the latest Uniscribe Engine ?
>>>>
>>>>My Uniscribe Version is 1.626.7600
>>>>
>>>>With Regards,
>>>>
>>>>Vinodh Rajan
>>>>
>>>
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