Re: [indic] Lack of Complex script rendering support on Android

Christopher Fynn said on Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:27:30PM +0600,:

> Although Adnroid devices "support Unicode" - it seems there is no
> support for complex script rendering on almost all Android devices
> which makes them pretty useless for text communication in all Indian
> languages (and many others too)

And strangely, Android uses harfbuss, ICU and pango for text
layout. All libraries support Indic; and it seems that at compile
time, support for Indic is disabled.

Thanks for taking the pain to identify the bug/ issue numbers.

As pointed out, some devices sold in India support _some_ Indic
scripts. That is it.

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Mahesh T. Pai   ||