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cforcloud
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October 8, 2010
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Tamil unicode font

  • October 8, 2010
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We have a problem in displaying a simple tamil unicode glyph text in TLF or Flash Text Engine.

When the following tamil text is pasted the ெ  glyph (or ligature) gets jumbled up.

அகர முதல எழுத்தெல்லாம் ஆதி
பகவன் முதற்றே உலகு.

it becomes like:

அகர முதல எழுெத்தல்லாம் ஆதி
பகவன் முதறே்ற உலகு.

Original Tamil at:

http://ta.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%B1%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D

TLF demo at:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/demos/

Could someone help us out! Advanced Thanks'

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Correct answer Eric_Y_Muller

Just to be clear,

You want the top line, and you get the bottom one; correct?

The top line is set in Latha, Vista version. This font supports the "new" Tamil OpenType spec (via the tam2 script tag). The bottom line is set in Arial Unicode MS, which supports the "old" Tamil OpenType spec (via the taml script tag).

FTE (and TLF) support only the "new" fonts.

Eric.

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Eric_Y_MullerCorrect answer
Participating Frequently
October 8, 2010

Just to be clear,

You want the top line, and you get the bottom one; correct?

The top line is set in Latha, Vista version. This font supports the "new" Tamil OpenType spec (via the tam2 script tag). The bottom line is set in Arial Unicode MS, which supports the "old" Tamil OpenType spec (via the taml script tag).

FTE (and TLF) support only the "new" fonts.

Eric.

cforcloud
cforcloudAuthor
Participant
October 9, 2010

Many thanks for saving Muller. And thanks to FTE too.

Found some more "new" fonts which works as well.

http://www.ildc.in/Tamil/GIST/htm/otfonts.htm