On 6 November 2011 07:23, John Hudson <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know why OT Layout is not yet implemented in Android phones. I can > think of a number of possible reasons, a combination of which might apply. > One is that the developers simply have not done the work yet, but intend to. > Another is that they have concerns about font size on mobile devices, which > has delayed support for fonts with large layout tables. Another is that they > have security concerns about OTL tables in fonts (Google's webfont sanitiser > was stripping OTL tables from fonts served to Chrome for this reason, as I > understand; I'm not sure if this has changed yet).
Well Samsung have implemented it on some phones - and non-Android Linux phones have no problem rendering complex scripts - so it is not intrinsically difficult. Even Symbian feature phones sold in India mange this through Qt ~ and they have much less processing power and memory capacity than the majority of Android phones. For under Rs 1,500/- new I can buy a small Nokia phone that I can use to send and display SMS text messages in Devanagri - this is transmitted and received in Unicode. - C
