> Uniscribe and Pango, once they are complete*, must represent a

great deal

> of work.
> *I'm just about sure that neither is.
>
> Suzanne McC. might like to have a look at the Tamil specimen on

the Pango

> page.

Hi, I looked at it but it doesn't look like a Unicode font to me.
The Latha font is quite attractive and clear and views very well in
IE. I can view any Tamil site I wish now.

Unicode Tamil looks great. In fact, just today at school my
multilingual working group, seven 9 year olds who among them have 5
different languages but also are competent in English, (we meet once
a week in class and sometimes after school) presented PPT
dictionaries (text converted to image along with a picture)in Tamil,
Chinese and Russian. The kids were very eager to read each others
script.

The problem is that keyboading with Uniscribe is quite difficult.
One problem is that if there is a time delay between typing the C
and the V then they do not reshape and connect. So you have to
start again. Also any spelling error at all will mess everything up
and detach the preceding syllable so you have to retype it. I have
a student this year who is literate in Tamil and English. He can
sort of keyboard in tamil but with much support from me. However,
he still protests, they all do, - these kids find Uniscribe and the
whole process of producing the syllable shapes by typing in letters
to be quite absurd. The reshaping and rendering is so nonintuitive.
However, the end result looks great.

Here is a site about Unicode Khmer.

http://www.bauhahnm.clara.net/Khmer/Welcome.html#ODDENCODING

I only use Notepad for Unicode fonts since I don't have an office
edition with a dll file. You can google things like 'unicode
versions' or 'dll files' etc. I did and found a page which helped
me identify what was what. (sorry I lost it)

Read this post for insight into how others are dealing with
Uniscribe.

http://lists.webarch.co.uk/pipermail/multikulti-tech/2004-
May/000085.html

When all else fails ask Andrew Cunningham in Australia.
andrewc at vicnet.net.au

I think the Pango stuff is kept up to date (2003 for sure) but I
hear that IE displays Unicode Tamil better than mozilla so I still
use Windows.


Cheers,

Suzanne

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