Shriramana On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 18:56 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> I am using LibreOffice 3.3.3 on Kubuntu Natty and 3.4.2 on Windows XP. > On both installations I observe the following bug: > > In Tamil, vowelless consonants are considered independent grapheme > clusters on their own as they do not ligate with following consonants > unlike other Indic scripts. (The only exception is க் ligating with ஷ to > form க்ஷ.) > > Take for example the Tamil word சித்திரை (name of a month). The grapheme > cluster split-out is: சி|த்|தி|ரை and not சி|த்தி|ரை. However, when my > cursor is to the left of த் and I press the right-cursor key, the cursor > moves to the right of தி, and vice versa with left-cursor key. Obviously > LibreOffice considers த்தி as a single cluster. Other applications (like > for example Thunderbird which I am using to compose this mail) correctly > treat த் and தி as separate grapheme clusters. > > This faulty behaviour is seen for all CONSONANT + VIRAMA + CONSONANT > sequences in Tamil in LibreOffice. > > Should I report this against LibreOffice in the FreeDesktop Bugzilla or > elsewhere against some other rendering library that LO uses? > > -- > Shriramana Sharma > I would post the bug against LO. There may be other languages with similar problems. -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
