[Lohit-devel-list] Kannada font support in Android ICS(4.0)

[Pravin Satpute]

On 12/22/2011 03:49 PM, reshma naik wrote:
> Hi  Parag,
>
>    Thank you for the reply.
>
>  The steps mentioned in the blog adds support to Android Browser and
> it works perfectly fine on my side also.
>
> Now ,The problem is copy any word in kannada and paste in compose
> message of Messaging app,then again kannada fonts are not rendered the
> way it is copied.

How about Devanagari, Bengali, does "?????" renders correctly in
Messaging app?
Open type fonts need open type layout shaper for proper rendering of
complex script. Harfbuzz[1] is in active development for Indian script.

1. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz

>
> Regards,
> Reshma
>
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Parag Nemade <pnemade at redhat.com
> <mailto:pnemade at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     On 12/22/2011 10:38 AM, reshma naik wrote:
>
>         Hi All,
>
>         I am trying to get the kannada font support for Android ICS.
>
>         I see that there are 3 font support
>         Lohit-Bengali,Lohit-Devanagari and Lohit-Hindi along with
>         system fonts.
>
>         On similar lines ,I downloaded the binary Lohit-Kannada from
>         the site and placed in folder Lohit-fonts in external folder
>         of the source code and made relevant make file changes.
>
>         I have also included the Lohit-Kannada font as family-set in
>         fallback_fonts.xml in the framework.
>
>         After MAKE,I am able to see the kannada fonts render in
>         browser but the complex script is not supported.Glyphs are not
>         rendered in proper way ,though it is just readable.
>
>         Kindly help as I  have tried all possible ways from my side.
>
>
>     Does steps given in the following link works for you?
>     http://androidandsandu.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-add-indian-languages-to-android.html
>
>     Regards,
>     Parag.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Warm Regards,
> Reshma Naik
>
>
>
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