Thank you for the report. I tried the AnjaliOldLipi font and I think it looks fine.

What is the problem? Can you provide test strings?

michiel, 7 years ago

Sir,

Please have a look the differences below . letters in one word doesnt comes together

this is the text
മലയാളം എന്‍റെ ഭാഷയാണ്
കാര്യം നിസ്സാരം പ്രശ്നം ഗുരുതരം
and it appears as below in the picture.. so it makes lot difference in reading

Pls advice

Thank you

NOUFAL MUSTHAFA, 7 years ago

So some characters are accents that must be rendered on top of the previous character. Right?

I've identified 2 such characters:

്
ഁ

We'll try to fix this. Thank you for the test strings.

en.wikipedia.org...

michiel, 7 years ago

HI,

NOT ONLY THOSE TWO CHARECTERS BUT ALSO MANY OTHERS SO IT WOULD BE HIGHLY USEFUL TRY TO FIX IT MALAYALAM UNICODE FRIENDLY

YOU MAY FIND SOME EXAMPLES HERE

THANKS

omniglot.com...

NOUFAL MUSTHAFA, 7 years ago

As far as I can see, Malayalam uses the same system as Thai and Khmer: the accents must be rendered right aligned on top of the previous character.

The accents can be rendered on top of all normal characters.

I identified 2 accents and only found examples of the 1st.

Can you post a list of all the Malayalam accents?

michiel, 7 years ago

here it is the fonts are..pls try with one font

malayalam.indiatyping.com...

NOUFAL MUSTHAFA, 7 years ago

Thank you for the test fonts. The Malayalam script turns out to be more complex than rendering the accents at the right place. This will take a bit longer to sort out. Thank you for the test material!

michiel, 7 years ago

Musthafa, do you see errors in this screenshot?

michiel, 7 years ago

HI MICHIEL,

THIS LOOKS BIT FINE, SO COULD YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW DID YOU SOLVE IT?

Regards,
Noufal

NOUFAL MUSTHAFA, 7 years ago

Hi Noufal,

Glad to hear it's correctly rendered now!

The solution turned out to be ligatures and glyph variants. Both are not used in Latin scripts, but are vital in Indian scripts.

They are not supported in the current version, but will be in the next.

We're currently updating the user guide, you can see a preview here. Remember that none of the techniques described on this page work in the version you are using right now:

outerspace-software.com...

michiel, 7 years ago

hi Micheal,
any update on malayalam font support?

NOUFAL MUSTHAFA, 7 years ago

Yes. The latest version fully supports the Malayalam language:

outerspace-software.com...

michiel, 7 years ago

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