Language support summary/discussion

[omiazad]

Hello Martin,
Finally I installed Epiphany and checked other things too. Please have
a look at the image:

[image: http://ekushey.sf.net/files/Screenshot.jpg]


As I set Sagar as my font face in the Font Preferences window. Bangla
is working OK where Sagar is applied. Please check Pint Three, Point
Five, Point Seven. And the Gnome taskbar. 

This time I checked things very carefully and come to the decision
that all the text problem is only the problem of the font FreeSans.ttf.
This font doesn't have all the OpenType layout programmed in it, so it
cannot render all the complex texts of Bangla. Have a look at Point
Two. I was using Gaim for chatting and when I select another Bangla
font, then Bangla is working well. But when the other party is sending
me message, it becomes garbage as the other party text was using the
system font FreeSans.ttf for Bangla. Changing font works fine in Gaim
for both input and output. But it doesn't work in Gimp. In Gimp's enter
text window it always uses the system font FreeSans.ttf and shows
garbage, but in the image the selected font works fine. So all blame
goes to the system font.

In Point One of the above Image, I've changed the font of Gedit and
that is working fine.

I looked carefully at Epiphany body (Point Four) and Firefox body
(Point Six). I found the sequence for Bangla rendering is perfect in
FireFox, Just have to change the font, but Epiphany's texts are not
rendered with Pango. So I can say that Epiphany doesn't support Bangla
through Pango. Have a look at Windows version Firefox, where it is
using Windows' system font.


[image: http://ekushey.sf.net/files/WinSh.jpg]


To provide batter support for Bangla you should make all applications
Pango enable (as I found Abiword is also not supporting Bangla
rendering) and you have to choose a good font for Bangla UI.

If you tell me how to hack and change the UI font for Bangla then I
could check more and give you my best feedback.

Regards
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Omi Azad
Contributor
Bangla Computing and Localization Projects:
Ankur: http://www.ankurbangla.org
Ekushey: http://www.ekushey.org


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omiazad