Hi Peter, I hear Windows 8 is in the pipeline this year...
Will this bug be (or is it already) fixed in Windows 8 ? V On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Peter Constable <[email protected]>wrote: > Of course, Asmus is right. This is a bug in Uniscribe -- thanks for the > report. It applies only to Indic scripts. > > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Asmus Freytag [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 5:26 AM > To: Vinodh Rajan > Cc: Michael Kaplan; Peter Constable; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [unicode] Problems with Windows 7 Unicode Font Rendering > > On 3/4/2010 5:22 PM, Vinodh Rajan wrote: > >> Please try a font with *no* support and let the OS pick fonts it knows > of. > >> Like Arial; Windows will then pick Mangal and Latha on it's own > >> without running into weirdnesses.... > >> > > > > Yeah. In that case everything works fine. > > > > > While it's nice to have support for generic fonts via the OS based on an > ASCII font, it should be possible to have one's own font for multiple > scripts. After all, fonts exist not just to make text legible, but also to > select a concret appearance different from other concrete appearances for > the same text. > > A./ > > -- http://www.virtualvinodh.com
