From: Michael Kaplan (michka@trigeminal.com)
Date: Thu Mar 04 2010 - 13:07:08 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....
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 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:
>
> 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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