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The browser doesn't render any Devnagari content at all.  eg. http://www.esakal.com/
 The iPhone gets partially there, but is incorrect.  Nokia E71 renders it perfectly.

I agree with milindr. I see Square boxes like ☐ instead of characters अ आ इ ई उ ऊ on
Unicode or UTF8 compliant Hindi websites. Even Google Hindi website doesnt open
properly through my HTC Hero's Android 1.5 stock browser. Please support Devnagri
lipi (Sanskrit/Hindi) fonts in Android OS. I want to change my default font to see
Devnagri numerals: ०,१,२,३,४,५,६,७,८,९ instead of Roman numerals:
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. I want my clock to use Devnagri numerals instead of Roman
numerals. Thanks!

Perfect.
So, this should get fixed and also the default browser should support hindi and other
UTF8 fonts.

Yes we need full Hindi (Devanagari) unicode support in Android. There should also be
provision for Hindi virtual keyboard in Android for inputting Hindi text. It can be
provided as a separate download.

There is such a tool named "Eyron's Hindi Support" for Windows Mobile. Similar tool
should be provided for Android.

I'm developing a Hindi(Devanagari) Virtual Keyboard for Android. As it has been clear
from other open issues on this problem as in Issue 36912303 where the google
representative pointed out in Comment 15 that:

4. as alok.kumar says in comment #14, just having the font glyphs doesn't necessarily
mean you can put them on the screen correctly. there's font renderer work to be done.

I'm having somewhat the same problem. Whenever I try to use the unicode which
combines with the previous one to form a new glyph for example '094D' known as
halant, it doesn't work. Whenever I input 094D, it clears all the previous characters
in the textbox. This also happens with all the other Matra unicodes in Devanagari.

I'm also aware that Android as of now, do not has devanagari font support. I created
my own application and attached Devanagri font to it using:

Typeface face=Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/Mangal.ttf");


Can you please let me know why all the previous characters in the textbox clears as
soon as I input any Matra unicode?

@druvbhasin
i m using the same method to type devnagri letters & facing no problem while typing Matra's like  ु ू े  ै ा ौ ो  etc but Halant is not working to form ligatures  for eg "स्वस्त"  displayed as " स् वस् त"

@druvbhasin @riyajsheikh

Did you just replace original Droid-Sanserif.ttf with Mangal.ttf (of course renamed latter to Droid-Sanserif.ttf)?

I tried it on my rooted Sprint HTC Hero but it then screws English sentences.

Any idea?

@prateeka...@gmail.com

what i am(& i guess even druvbhasin is also) trying to do here is to develop an application which will have a feature of DEVNAGRI typing.It will be able to type in indian languages.
I am not trying to change default font files but rather using a dedicated font file for this application. having this file will not affect (in a +ve or -ve way) any other application present on the phone.

Why Android People not yet do this................... Just as orkut n facebook in India, this thing will repeat also. What is happening to Google????????????

Google is sleeping. Google wake up!

iPhone also has this support. Symbian had this for ages.

Having Indic script (Indian Language) support is must if Google considers world as their market.

google's android is 'quietly hopeless' fellow, I don't expect it from google, rather I accept it from developers @ xda-developers!!

@ prateeka
Change DroidSansFallback.ttf instead of changing DroidSans.ttf this worked for me I can see English and Devanagari but again Devanagari is messed up because there is no proper rendering. Once you change fallback it will show Chinese characters as boxes, I didnt care for it anyways :)

I wonder why this is a big deal for andriod to render these fonts when Nokia (Symbian) has this in its very basic phones, really doubt it requires that much space. If someone has any background in rendering maybe we can put this in custom rom.

I am really surprised that even now (so many months of requests have passed) we still do not have support for Devnagri fonts for Android? I use Samsung Galaxy S.

please include devnagri fonts.. please wake up

I use the HTC Desire, Planning to buy the Galaxy. I have plans to develop apps for Kannada language. I consider rendering Indic Fonts to be a fundamental OS function. Dear Google, The world is aware of your development labs in Bangalore, India. Wake up!!

Plzzzz ....make hindi fonts for android...kindaly be serious for this issue.

kindly add devnagri support in android

kindly give hindi/devnagri support in android.

Please provide devnagri support for Android

All the mobile phones being sold in India with Android must necessarily provide Hindi/Devanagari support. This will boost the sales as well as the image of the mobile phone companies.

Hi , the unicode text rendering will be supported in "HoneyComb" release. As quoted by android framework engineer. This will hopefully will resolve all the unicode language support issues.

Check this link for more details
http://groups.google.com/group/android-platform/browse_thread/thread/3dc8d17daf955348/9bd1799a0f5fcd6d?#9bd1799a0f5fcd6d

hi sir i am Gursharan

And i want HINDI fonts for ANDROID phone
I am  using SE X10 mini pro
thx

please provide hindi support

Guys I am on moto backflip 2.1. I renamed mangal.ttf to DroidSans.ttf and replaced it from the fonts folder. It is working now but the fonts are messed up..

U know what no one cares what India wants. Better we should develop the apps ourselves..

Even  Notionink adam too doesnt  support hindi fonts.NI is  indian company.....still it doesnt support

sir i am using LG P1-500, but disappointed to see not supporting hindi font

Not Android only but Google Chrome also does not support Indic fonts using @font-face tag.
I don't understand why Google is not interested in taking care of these issues.
Please please enable Indic font support for all Google's products and applications.

Well, Indian ROM for Samsung Galaxy S Froyo 2.2 supported Hindi very well without any of the glitches or messing up pointed out by others. But the moment, I switched to 2.2.1 ROM (European), Hindi is no longer supported properly even if I bring in DroidHindi.ttf in the fonts folder directly (gives only boxes) or by renaming DroidSansFallback (small e matra and halant etc. are messed up).

Need Telugu language support for android. ఆన్ద్రయిడ్ తెలుగులో కావాలి, ఎప్పుడు వస్తుంది ?

Need Kannada language support...PLZZZZZZZZ...

Android can read Hindi font. how? click here http://android-bucket.blogspot.com/2011/04/android-can-read-hindi-font.html

I bought samsung galaxy I5003 few days back and it was rendering hindi perfactly. Few days back i upgraded it to froyo GT I5000 as i wasnt able to see hindi fonts so I replaced DroidSansFallback.ttf  with HindiDroid.ttf (/system/fonts  folder ). Now I am able to see hindi fonts but they are not rendered properly as earlier (I mean some problem with मात्रा, विशर्ग, हलन्त). As i dont have the original 2.1 eclair firmware i cant get the original ttf file which came with samsung . If someone is having then plz provide that ttf file. I am sure it will solve my problem.

@avinashs: The rendering is done with a part of OS i guess. So replacing fonts would not possibly solve problems

eenadu.net (Telugu news paper) works on honeycomb tablet ... but sakshi doesn't work. It's other way around on IOS (which supports indic fonts) where Sakshi.com works and eenadu.net doesn't. Doesn't know how ...

Ya Google Baba,

Many User's are waiting for Hindi Version of Andriod.

+ 1

I am eagerly waiting for Hindi Version of Andriod.
Pl. don't delay it.

I see that froyo on my mobile already has 'DroidHindi.ttf' font in it,
displays hindi, but glyphs rendering is not correct. I am looking
forward for getting malayalam working on it, but at this state, I feel
just adding unicode malayalam font may not help. We have to get the
rendering correct first.

Mr. Google resolve this issue.

C'mon google! This needs to be fixed.

Not supporting the langauges (Indic Fonts) spoken by 1/6th of the global population is not right. Google ... Whats stopping you from supporting Indic fonts...

To all those reading this thread...

I agree that Android does not have support for Hindi (Devanagari) indic script for all the phones. However some manufacturers like Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson are releasing their android versions with Devanagari support. But they are not providing support for all of their phone models. The phones that I have tested and provide good support for Devanagari are as follows:

1. Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 (Support exists from Froyo 2.2.1)
2. LG Optimus One LG-P500 (Support added from Gingerbread 2.3.3)
3. Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc (Support out of the box running Android 2.3)

This shows that there are some packages that need to be bundled in the android update. All these manufacturers are are taking base image of the Google release and customizing it region wise where the phone is going to be sold. This customization is similar to adding APN list of the cellular provider of that region.

Google has done a fantastic work on Indian language in GMail why can't they add this to their core?

Probably as per Google's strategy they give bare bone software to OEM partners and these partners (LG/Samsung etc) go and add region wise stuff. If Google includes all the languages under the sun, it may become bulky and not will get used hence leaving to the partners is better approach. But some OEM partners like HTC are not doing region wise build to make their life easier. HTC is putting the same software image for Europe and India and Asia.

Another reason why these partners don't customize all the phones - they have a target segment of customers. High end users/top business executives in India generally avoid using Hindi or local languages. Phones which are in low and mid range are mass market phones where usage of local language is more and if these people are targets then adding local language feature becomes important for company from marketing angle.

As a Bengali tools developer I get many queries about the Bengali support on Android. I have been tracking the Android progress for about two years now. But I am disappointed to see that Android still does not have correct Unicode rendering of all languages. I can think about tons of apps that can be created once the basic support is there.

I hope this problem gets fixed soon.

It is possible to install an view Indic fonts by unofficial rooting and replacing of the font file. Instead if google can release with the next update, a font file which includes these unicode characters as well, the problem will be solved. Windows did it with the Ariel Unicode font which renders all characters out there....

I believe this has been fixed in android ICS (4.0)

Can someone give a clue where to hack. Font file is not a solution. Strikin
Something to do with libskia or ics. Is rendering rocket science,
Google-gi...

@anand.m.s, could you please give us a link or some thing? People tended to believe that it was solved a long ago, but we are still at this thread, aren't we?

anvar = the font file just allows us to see the letters instead of boxes.

This problem is mot due to lack of support for Unicode or anything to do with the font files themselves. It is just down to lack of complex script rendering (or "shaping") support in Android.

Linux supports this with the harbuzz / pango library. MS Windows does it with Uniscribe (usp10.dll), Adobe applications does it with Cooltype, and Apple have ATUSI. It is not rocket science. All complex  scripts render properly on the iPhone and on Linux phones such as the N900. For some stupid reason Google crippled Android by removing this support which has been available in almost every Linux distribution for many years. The fact that manufactures like Samsung can add it to certain models sold in certain markets shows it is not difficult.

Even many Symbian phones have this through Qt which also contains complex script support.

This is a major defect in the Android operating system and it puts Android at a big disadvantage in huge markets like India and the rest of South Asia.

@ anand.m.s. - Beleive what you want, but complex script rendering does *not* work properly in the Android 4.0 emulator.

@ comment 49 - Just installing Indic fonts won't do - these fonts contain tables of layout features for glyph substitution and positioning which have to be applied by a complex text rendering system. In Indic scripts there is not a simple 1 to 1 relationship between characters and glyphs and, unless these layout features are applied, the text won't render properly, even if a proper font is present. That's why people who have the DroidHindi.ttf font installed or who replace the  DroidSansFallback.ttf with a Devanagri font see the letters "all messed up".

The main thing Android is missing is a complex text layout engine like Pango. Why can't they just implement this for a start? Frankly this support should have been present in the very first release of Android.



 


 

Actually, there can't be any reason to cripple Android. No more old arguments like memory, storage, cpu etc for mobile os is valid anymore. It could be the stupid indian engineers working at google. In the age of globalisation and localisation, android should not be kept in the dark. Wake up google. Act fast before you miss the bus.

I completely agree with Chris. All the noise about lack of support for unicode is meaningless. It is, as Chris said, to do with complex script rendering. With what I have read about ICS and seen on emulator, I again have to agree with Chris - ICS / Androdi 4 does *NOT* render hindi properly.

@Chris (#53)
Of course this is one of the main reasons why people in my know-how in Bharat and even those based in other countries in Indian Subcontinent like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, etc. are reluctant to move to Android phones. Why would they when people just can't read and send Hindi, Bangali, Nepali, etc. texts/SMSes on Android devices. Google is too indifferent to Subcontinent to realize that.

@anvar (#54)
What do you mean by "stupid indian engineers working at google"?

Please start posting on the following link for this issue.
We are divided and have opened up so many threads for the same issue. If we all get together and support one single "Issue" we will have more pressure.
Please start posting all your comments and posts on the link given below.

I am not doing this to favor one group over other it just happened that the following has got maximum no of stars as compared to others

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1618

I see the problem ~ but issue 36906463 says "Support Hindi characters in droid fonts" when it is really proper support for characters of *all* Indic scripts (in fact all complex scripts) that is needed (not just Devanagri / Hindi). The main problem isn't the fonts either - it is Android's lack of support for complex script rendering. Adding fonts and input methods for these scripts and languages is useless until the rendering works properly.

I don't know, does this issue tracker system have a proper way of combining or merging all closely related defect reports / feature requests?  

There are *so* many issues posted here that are related to this one. These include

Issues: 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

Perhaps we should start a petition on Facebook and Google+ to get complex script rendering supported on Android - I think that might get far more attention than posting issues here.

@Chris (#58)

There already is a Facebook page for this topic. Please circulate. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Support-for-Devanagari-in-Android/124395064291990

Why should a phone be called as 'smartphone' when it can't do a basic task? I have symbian s60v3 base Nokia E63 and it renders devanagari in an absolutely perfect way. Android may be smart, but not Google India nor companies selling smartphones in Indian Market. Open OS and such restrictions? I am fortunate that I found this before buying an Android. Guys, please mention your phone if it supports devanagari with proper rendering so that people will be educated about smartphones with devanagari support.

Latest version, v4 or ICS, supports complex script rendering and Indic fonts.

Do you have any screen shots actually illustrating this? doesn't work in the emulator.

- Chris

Ics build 3 by atinm for  AT&T captivate...

Please post the screenshot for madhyamam.com, a malayalam newspaper

Here you go!

So atleast captivate is perfect now. That's a news. Thanks.

its not only captivate, its a feature of android 4.0 ICS, so any phone with android 4.0 can render it.
Android 4.0 ICS is awesome :)

But still hindi font is not proper!!

How much time it takes to backport the support to gingerbread ?

Any One please Post a screenshot of www.prothom-alo.com a bangla newspaper

I guess that website uses a lot of flash. Flash for ICS is not ready yet so it is not properly diplayed, but u can read the fonts.

Rendering is not perfect on bangla , like Conjugants (Juktakkhor) not working

Is it possible for someone to post the screenshot of Marathi newspaper site http://www.loksatta.com/

Thanks

[Comment deleted]

Hindi websites are still not viewable on ICS natively. Attached is a screen shot of Google Hindi website http://www.google.com/m?hl=hi NOT working on ICS in emulator. The other screen shot shows how Google Hindi looks like on Chrome desktop browser.

 prateeka...@gmail.com: There is a chance that the emulator problem is due to a font issue, like the droid sans fallback font. By any chance, is it possible in the emulator to change the droidsansfallback font?

Marathi newspaper site http://www.loksatta.com/

Is this fixed or not? If you are sure that it is fixed, please close it.

no it is not fixed... Hindi text is not showing properly.
Even Gujarati text is not rendering at all.

It is *not* fixed - with a proper font you may see the glyphs for the individual characters in Indic scripts, but these do not join up to form conjuncts properly so the text is pretty well unreadable.

Also, why do user have to 'hack' the system to get proper rendering which should be there by default .

Hi, GOOD NEWS.

 Tested in 4.0.3 version, and finally Google supporting Hindi, Tamil and Bengali languages.(Tested on Nexus-s )

Thanks Google and Team.

Is there any chance to backport the support to gingerbread ?

Working on nexus s ics 4.0.3!

Sent Via " Google Nexus S " Mobile Phone

I am using a certain port of ICS 4.0.1 for HTC Desire by "sandvold". It renders Hindi correctly, but not other Indian languages. So, probably, 4.0.3 will have support for all or some more Indian languages?

I am using Samsung S5830 Galaxy Ace, Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread.DDKQ4 mobile
phone and it renders Hindi correctly.
I can even type my texts in Hindi using multiling-keyboard.com Indic
keyboard available in Android market.
An intutive keyboard for Indian languages paninikeypad.com is also
available in the Android market.
My guess is that any phone with Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread would render
other Indian languages also correctly.
However, the best course would be that users having the same type of phones
may try google search in their own languages and let others know if their
languages are also rendered correctly.

--

C.M. Rawal

M.A. (Hindi),  B.A. (Com.), Prabhakar (Hons. in Hindi),

Certificate Course in Translation, C.A.I.I.B.

*(Ex. Asstt. General Manager (Hindi), Reserve Bank of India )*

*Vice President, Indian Translators Association*

*I-58, Sector 41, NOIDA - 201303 (U.P.)  INDIA*

*Phone: +91 120 4357111 *
*Mobile: +91 9818450779 *
*Email: cmrawal@yahoo.com*

Excellent news sandeep....@wipro.com, could you please post some screen shots?


cmra...@gmail.com : samsung uses custom modifications in galaxy ace to fix the issue. The same build in Galaxy S2 does not work.

Tested and can confirm that it's rendering hindi perfectly on nexus s running on ice cream sandwich android 4.0.3. Check the screenshot. I :-)

That is indeed good news. Too bad I am out of Android for now and if this is true, my next purchase may be back to Android.  Thanks ank.mit...@gmail.com

Please make sure that complex script rendering works on more than one phone running 4.0.3 before closing this issue. It seems some manufactures have added code of their own to fix this.

Yes, Hindi is working fine in Nexus S (403) but same case is not for Gujarati text which is also part of Indic language.
I am not sure weather Nexus S(403) is rendering other Indic languages.

Though it is not working for Gujarati, I don't think this need to be closed.

It would be wonderful if we can identify any workaround to add support from Application level (I am not aware with feasibility) to render Indic script.

I think there is indeed indic support in ics. The android 4 virtual machine at vmlite.com does render indic websites properly.
But can we have this feature ported to older versions ?

Friends, Hindi works fine generally in Samsung and some other phones. It is some customization by Samsung and those other companies. In versions before ICS, it is not natively supported by Android. Right now, I am using ICS 4.0.1 version provided for HTC Desire by "Sandvold" and am observing that Hindi renders perfectly, though not other Indian languages - I guess it is native support. Will have to wait till "Sandvold" releases 4.0.3 before checking support for other languages.
Hope this helps.

Sorry to bust the bubble friends. I have just tested. Hindi websites are still not viewable on ICS 4.0.3 natively. Attached is a screen shot of Google Hindi website http://www.google.com/m?hl=hi NOT working on ICS in emulator. The other screen shot shows how Google Hindi looks like on Chrome desktop browser.

Although I have noticed one interesting thing. If you look in <android-sdk>\platforms\android-15\data\fonts location, you will find all the fonts natively shipped with android. It has Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Thai, Ethiopic, etc fonts. But Devanagari font is missing.

Now open <android-sdk>\platforms\android-15\data\fonts\fallback_fonts.xml file. This file specifies the fonts, and the priority order, that will be searched for any glyphs not handled by the default fonts specified in /system/etc/system_fonts.xml.

In this file you will see

<familyset>
    <family>
        <fileset>
            <file>DroidNaskh-Regular.ttf</file>
        </fileset>
    </family>
    <family>
        <fileset>
            <file>DroidSansHebrew-Regular.ttf</file>
            <file>DroidSansHebrew-Bold.ttf</file>
        </fileset>
    </family>
    ....
    ....
    <family>
        <fileset>
            <file>Lohit-Devanagari.ttf</file>
        </fileset>
    </family>
    <family>
        <fileset>
            <file>Lohit-Bengali.ttf</file>
        </fileset>
    </family>
    <family>
        <fileset>
            <file>Lohit-Tamil.ttf</file>
        </fileset>
    </family>
    <family>
        <fileset>
            <file>DroidSansFallback.ttf</file>
        </fileset>
    </family>
</familyset>

As you can see that it mentions three font files: Lohit-Devanagari.ttf, Lohit-Bengali.ttf, and Lohit-Tamil.ttf. But all the three files are missing from the fonts folder.

My guess is that Google has not released these files either by mistake (defect/bug) or intensionally. Only way to know is if some Google Android official cares to reply to this thread.

Until then Hindi or other Devanagari based websites are NOT supported. I agree with kris...@gmail.com (#93), Samsung and some other manufactures are shipping customized phones. That does not mean it works on all other ICS or pre-ICS based phones.

we need a page that would have one line of complex script with conjuncts of each of the languages. In that way, a tester can paste a screen shot of that page.

I am taking an initiative to create such a site. Please check the following blog page, and add comment with unicode content of your language.

Thanks in advance.

http://unitestsite.blogspot.com/2011/12/creating-test-content-for-testing-indic.html?showComment=1324366739651#c8050489524529585630

@prateeka...@gmail.com,
Please test it on Nexus-S mobile, don't try it on emulator.
All the 3 indian fonts which google is supporting are avaliable & part of system fonts directory.


Regards
Sandeep S.P

@robinb...@gmail.com

Google already supporting some of the indian languages, and addition of the new indian languages is not a hurricane task.

@sandu.sh...@gmail.com

I know. But we need a proper test site, and unfortunately I dont know the other indic languages that good to know words containing conjuncts. So I was hoping the community could contribute.

Sandeep (#97)

The reason I verify on emulator is that an average independent/freelance developer does not have access to latest and greatest hardware right away. I think it is a deal-breaker if the basic emulator image does not support Devanagari. How does Google expect us to develop and test without fonts?

Sandeep, can you guide us how you verified that they are part of system fonts directory? If you have access to those three fonts through ADB, can you please share them with us? At least we can then push them on Emulator and move forward with development. Thanks.

@ prateeka...@gmail.com I have been using the alpha3 ROM of ICS for Galaxy Tab 7 from XDA developers. I did find Lohit Bangla, Hindi and Tamil fonts in the font folder. It does render Bengali better than gingerbread but still not fully, the joined letters are still missing, though the (akar and okars are in the right place.)

@ Prateeka (#100)
check this link for other Indian languages support
http://androidandsandu.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-add-indian-languages-to-android.html

How to use font engine in android?

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@sapanapa (103)

This "solution" only works for Webkit and not for messaging etc. Anyway it is far to complex for ordinary users. While it does mean there is some real progress on this issue, imho it is still far from being "resolved".

Complex script rendering needs to work for all major Indic scripts - not just two or three - and it needs to work in messaging and other important applications not just in the web browser.

Frankly the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the Indian Government - and the Governments of all other SAARC nations - should pass a regulation banning the import and sale of smartphones that don't properly support their languages. Then we would see this issue fixed overnight.

@ comment 104

Perhaps *all* the issues I mentioned in comment 58 above should be merged into this one.

Good exercise of merging! It is appreciated!

Two things:

1. What about issues 3393, 9248, 12420, 12981,19466, 19691, 20198 and many other issues as mentioned in comment 58 above? All are basically the same requests/complaints!

2. Will Google take so much time to sort the issue as they have taken for simple merging of issues, or can we expect faster action?

I agree with Comment 113. I dont see any valid explanation while merging the issue. Just being duplicate is ridiculous.

I waited for 1 year for native support to Indian fonts and moved on to iOS which has native Indian language support in the browser.

It is very unacceptable to see such delayed response and no apathy towards Indic languages.

I am using official OTA for i9023 [Nexus S GSM] [4.0.3] Build number IML74K.
Hindi/Tamil/Bengali rendering is perfect in browser and major applications.
That being said, support for other major languages is missing. Even the fonts are missing.

So What I did was manually edit /system/etc/fallback_fonts.xml to include (open source) AnmolLipi.ttf and push the font file to /system/fonts using adb.

Its same as overwriting DroidSansFallback.ttf with your choice of font. But that may break some other glyphs.

Now in AOSP builds of the ROMs, the rendering of Hindi is broke in UI itself. This is kind of interesting. I think Google only fixed Indic rendering [that too of 3 mentioned languages] in webkit related applications.

This is kind of sad given Google has wonderful tools for Indic languages like Google IME and Google transliteration .

For who have installed fonts and want to type in their choice of language, just install this wonderful keyb - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.klye.ime.latin&feature=search_result

PS: libharfbuzz.so is present in /system/lib

So 11 issues were merged into this one.
Hope they finally resolve this issue, and not just consider that 11 other issues were resolved. (That's what they did for most other Gingerbread issues)

I've made a small flashable zip for CWM, you can get it at - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1430919

Hope Google supports and renders Indic fonts on all Android platforms. Just supporting Indic scripts on ICS is not going to help the cause.

hi, I have created a test site for different unicode languages. http://unitestsite.blogspot.com/

Can any one please post a screenshot of the webpage in android ICS build? It has actual unicode text as well as image of unicode text in Bengali, Tamil, Tibetian and Marathi. Please provide us a screenshot, and if it renders correctly, the issue can be declared to be resolved.

The link to the test page is: http://unitestsite.blogspot.com/2012/01/ics-test-page-for-unicode.html

don't merge and intimate the issue. do work and find a solution. reply with
solution.....
why r u taking a lots of curse of indian people ??? if u give indian
language in android phone , then ur phone will reach in small villages
also... thats ur profit only...
do something and then reply... shame to u.....

*** SHUBHAM BHAVANTU ***
shyam joshi guruji...

Can someone please post an image of the text on that test site put in a mobile application other than the the browser. One that doesn't use webkit which does its own rendering.

 

Good to see all these related issues merged. Now can someone bump up the priority.

we want full bangla support in android asap.

we need full bangla support in android

we need full bangla support in android

Here is screenshot of Unicode Test page on Galaxy Nexus ICS.

Really disappointed with Android's lack of complex script rendering ability and I'm not buying another Android device untill it's sorted.

Oh thank you Mr niranjan...@google.com, Atleast Bangla renders perfectly. And font is nice too. Tamil and Marathi seems okay just by comparing with the image (I don't speak them, though.)

I think issue can be declared to be resolved.

Thanks again google. Will definitely consider an ICS phone on my next upgrade.

So many people to use Hindi language. still no support for Hindi in Adroid?

A lot of phones are still on Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Is this still not possible to have proper rendering of fonts for Gingerbrea ?

niranjan...@google.com (#134)

Can you please test the same site from ICS Android Emulator and post your results?

As I have mentioned before, the reason I verify on emulator is that an average independent/freelance developer does not have access to latest and greatest hardware right away. These are not cheap hardware. I think it is a deal-breaker if the basic emulator vanilla image does not support Devanagari.

Like we don't have Galaxy Nexus ICS. How does Google expect us to develop and test without necessary fonts support on its own native emulator? All we see is a bunch of boxes ☐. Emulator image that comes with 4.0.3 doesn't have the Devnagri lipi font even as a fallback font.

To be quite honest, I have also tried developing an app with Hindi custom fonts using the Typeface class and tested on all the emulators from Donut (1.6) to ICS (4.0.3). And I am sorry to say this but the Halant reordering issue exists on each of these releases. For example, "स्वस्त" is displayed as "स् वस् त" and "शिवाय" is displayed as "श िवाय"

I have been wanting to create an Android app in Sanskrit for a long time. But right now I can't even create one in Hindi, forget about Sanskrit with its even more complex conjuncts and glyphs rules.

I agree with anupash....@gmail.com (#140). What about backwards portability and compatibility? Fragmentation issues?

As far as I am concerned, this issue is NOT resolved until emulator supports Indic fonts and there is some, preferably well defined, backwards compatibility roadmap.

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Attached are the Marathi and Tamil examples from http://unitestsite.blogspot.com/2012/01/ics-test-page-for-unicode.html in a native application. This is on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus running Android 4.0.2.

@yanowka : in 4.0.2, the conjuncts look absolutely fragmented in marathi and bengali. I think it is fixed in 4.0.3

i have galaxy y and galaxy s both have malayalam font support.but galaxy s have some issue

Please post us screenshots of your device from the page http://unitestsite.blogspot.com/2012/01/ics-test-page-for-unicode.html , so that we can know whether the device supports the scripts of Hindi, Marathi, Tamil and Bengali. Also post the device model and firmware.

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@Comment 149

Please, not *only* Hindi (Devanagari), Marathi (Devanagari), Tamil and Bengali ~ but Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Myanmar, Oriya, Sinhala, Telugu, Tibetan, and other Indic scripts as well.  

This issue should not be considered solved until *all* these scripts render properly - and not just in the web browser, but in the interface and other applications as well.  

I would like to get some support for Khmer/cambodian language support as well. The unicode is based on indic family script. So far it is not rendering correctly. Please fix the Libskia.so and Libwebcore.so so then the OS will be able to rendering it properly.

Hari om..
Very very very thanks to u......
Now my mobile shows me marathi hindi sms or web sites or any content in
devnagari language...
My mobile handset also updated to gingerbread....
Lots of thanks.... very very sorry to giving u trouble...
Lots of best wishes to u and ur work... As a "ritwik" priest, my lots of
blessings to u and ur work / company...
Only one request to u that plz give devnagri language in handset language
i.e. in local and text menu...
Also plz add symbols like svastik, om, shree / shri etc. in devnagri font..
thats symbols r not present in font now.... plz....
Again very very thanks and lots of best wishes...
SHUBHAM BHAVANTU.....

*** SHUBHAM BHAVANTU ***
shyam joshi guruji...

It appears to me that engineers at google are basically doing nothing much about this issue, except for merging duplicate issues!

How can I add Sindhi unicode fonts on android? Does android support Sindhi fonts?

I would like t know priority and progress on this issue from some official person.

I would like to have Telugu and Tamil Language support in Android. Its really disappointing issue with Android.

We want Hindi font support by default in android

Keep merging. It wont help till you guys fix it. You could have lot more
customers and Windows phone may just take those who dont want iPhone but
they are because you guys don't support other fonts.

Issue-4153
Will always result in merges as long at the current dynamics stay the same. We can now safely assume this issue is a low priority for Google. Therefore we should focus on the device manufacturers and the government. A Bill must be passed in Goverment where all Handset manufactures must support the National Language. I would like to diverge a bit here and talk about my conversation with HTC India. I asked them about supporting Hindi, and got a reply that they have no plans to support a "Regional Language", now clearly Hindi is not a regional language, but they believe that English is a National Language, and everything else is regional. That is what we are dealing with.

And I am serious about the Bill, because the lack of Indic support really hurts SC and OBCs as they need it the most. Those who are Indian Nationals here should contact their representatives about this. A committee should draft strict requirements to satisfy these needs. Also Windows Phone Tango, will support entry level smartphones with 256 MB of RAM. This means the committee should evaluate current handsets in the market and issue ratings and recommendations, allow a grace period for device manufactures to comply with the recommendation and so on. India needs this more than the need to install snooping software in BlackBerry networks.

I agree, Google should support this hindi fonts by default.

For reading hindi on my phone, I rooted my phone and followed steps from
http://www.originaltips.com/270-google-tablet-pc-price-and-specifications

Now My phone is loading the Devanagri, Hindi and  Marathi fonts for just reading.
I won't say the font rendering is excellent, but yes, it is just for recognizing, what is actually written in hindi.

@ravi (164)

Exactly - India should pass a regulation that requires all smart phones imported into or sold in the country to properly support the scripts needed for properly rendering the national languages. I think China has such a requirement, but the Indian Government seems too afraid of, or too enamoured of, the high-tech companies to do something similar.

This is not rocket science. I have a handset running Linux and it works fine with all complex scripts without any modification or rooting.

 
 

See Comment # 155. It appears that the comment has been proven to be true! The engineers at Google are doing nothing more than merging the various issues on the ground of duplicity! When will this be solved?