Since May 2009 there have been many issues posted to the Android issue tracker< http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/> complaining about the lack of proper complex text layout (CTL) support on Android devices - particularly with regard to Indic scripts and languages - yet little seems to have been done to address this.
Related issues include: : 1618, 2600, 3008, 3027, 3029, 4153, 5925, 4153, 6283, 8103, 9045, 9248, 9859, 10685, 10750, 11999, 12674, 12981, 13022, 13967, 14234, 15171, 15895, 16306, 16939, 16144, 17011, 17279, 17291, 17445, 17563, 17573, 17576, 17803, 17850, 17992, 18178, 18235, 18392, 18859, 18936, 18950, 19050, 19352 19410, 19466, 19470, 19691, 19735, 19946, 19963, 21284, 20141, 20161, 20198, 20485, 20486, 20655, 20744, 20772, 20785. 21196, 21382 This is not something difficult to fix. OpenSource code (Pango/ Harfbuzz) exists in most Linux distributions to handle this. Yet, for some reason, Google has not implemented complex script support in Android. This affects use of hundreds of South and South East Asian languages including Bengali, Dzongkha, Farsi, Gujarati, Kannada, Khmer, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Myanmar, Nepali, Sinhala Tamil, Telegu, Thai, Tibetan, Urdu as well as many Africa languages. Adding fonts and input methods does not help without the underlying complex script support. Right now there is far better support for these scripts on Apple iPhone, Linux phones and even Symbian devices. Why does it seem like Google / Android is doing very little to address this matter? Aren't they interested in the huge South Asian market? - Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
