--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@...> wrote:

> --- suzmccarth <suzmccarth@...> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>
> You tell from looking at a fond what encoding it uses?

TSCII is still pretty popular but there is also a Linear Unicode
font. Maybe that is what it is. The ligatures look different.

>
> > 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.
>
> How bizarre. What software are you using?

MS Indic IME.

Suzanne