Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 20664
Tamil Unicode not rendered in Windows ME
Last modified: 2017-05-02 17:06:20 UTC
In Winows ME OS, OpenOffice Presentation module is not rendering the Tamil unicode characters correctly. Whereas the Text Documents prepared using the same Openoffice pack renders tamil correctly. The problem is observed in Windows 98 OS also. For more info about tamil rendering you can refer another unicode related issue entered in the issuezilla, issue no: 15013
Reassigned to Christian.
I can't reproduce the bug. I don't have the Tamil Unicode font on my (win98) system. I found the web tamil font in the internet and all characters looks ok. Please tell me where I can get the tamil Unicode font.
The webtamil font that you have used doesnt seem to be a unicode tamil font. The problem i have reported is pertaining to writing tamil using unicode tamil. You can get free(some are GPLed too) unicode tamil fonts from the link http://thamizha.com/downloads/unicodetamil.zip Also i have written a tamil article explaining in step how to write unicode tamil in Windows 98 using Open office. This is available at: http://www.thisaigal.com/oct/unitamcomp1.html Please go thro the steps mentioned in the article. While We are be able to use tamil in Openoffice Text documents, the presentation and spreadsheet documents of openoffice dont render tamil characters correctly. Note1: This problem will not be there while using OpenOffice in Windows2000 or Windows XP OS. As the OS level tamil rendering is present in these Operating systems. Note2: This problem is very likely to be seen if Openoffice is used under any Linux distribution (which does not have OS level rendering support for indic languages including tamil)
The font has the extension .kmx and wouldn't recognized as font. Unfortunately I can't read the article, because it's written in a lnguage which I don't know. Do you have a short description in english for me?
Created attachment 11375 [details] A Tamil Unicode font.
Hi, A Tamil Unicode font( TSCu_Paranar.ttf ) is attached. To simulate the issue do the following: 1. Please download the TSCu_paranar font and install in your windows 98 Computer 2. Open a Openoffice blank text document. 3. Copy and paste the tamil unicode text from the tamil unicode magazine page http://www.thisaigal.com/oct/unitamcomp1.html and use the TSCu_paranar font to view the pasted text. 4. You can find the tamil text is exactly similar to what it is in the website. 5. Now paste the same text in Openoffice presentation document or spread sheet document and use the same font TSCu_Paranar to view the pasted text. 6. You will see that the tamil text is not shown(rendered) correctly. Even though you dont understand the tamil language , you can clearly see the difference between the shapes of the tamil characters shown in text document(the correct rendering) and the way its shown in prsentation & spreadsheet (wrong rendering) I hope i have given enough info for you to simulate. Please try and getback if u still need help.
*** This issue has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
I can reproduce the bug on Win98. Please have a look.
The problem also shows on UNX platforms. HDU->MT/HB: The difference between Writer and EditEngine in this case is, that Writer doesn't set the TEXT_LAYOUT_COMPLEX_DISABLED flag, but the EditEngine does, even though Tamil requires CTL processing. Since I expect that many localizations will run into this problem and the fix seems to be simple, I suggest to set a OOo 1.1.2 target.
Henning...
accepted/targeted
retargeted
This issue is fixed ? I don't see any comments about.
retargetting changed resolution... strange.
estimated effort
I have seen that this issue is OOo-1.1RC4 related and that the last entry was in April 2004 ... :( Does this problem also occur in newer versions of OOo like 1.1.2ff or some 1.9.xx builds? If not: Could you close this issue, please?
Closed as obsolete